SAYING that 4 x 40 = 1,600 is a mathematical error that could have easily been explained away by simply admitting that it is a mistake. After all, she would not be the first person to have committed a mistake in verbal calculations. She is just human, and errors like this are not fatal or career-breaking.

But Vice President Maria Leonor Robredo, instead of apologizing, doubled down on the lie being peddled by her enablers and loyalists that malicious minds deliberately edited and spliced her speech to make it appear she committed the mistake.