VERA FILES FACT CHECK: NAIA NOT being renamed Manila Int’l Airport
No presidential decree has been issued, nor a congressional act approved, to make the name change.
Monthly Archives: February 2021
Marcos poll protest prompted years-long battle with falsehoods on social media
Four and a half years after its filing, the Supreme Court, sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET), unanimously voted on Tuesday, Feb. 16, to dismiss “for lack of merit” the entire election protest of former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. that challenged the victory of Vice President Leni Robredo in the 2016 national elections.
VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Bakit kailangang gumamit ng child restraint systems
Ipinagpaliban ang pagpapatupad ng Child Safety in Motor Vehicles Act upang bigyan ng panahon ang mga may-ari ng sasakyan na may mga alagang bata na 12 taon at mas bata na mag-install ng naaangkop na car seats na tinukoy sa bagong batas.
VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Why child restraint systems need to be used
Enforcement of the Child Safety in Motor Vehicles Act has been deferred to give car owners with children 12 years and younger time to install appropriate car seats specified in the new law.
Paano magberipika ng litratong kumakalat sa social media?
Alamin sa episode na ito ng #PramisWalangLokohan kung paano mag-Reverse Image Search, isang importanteng tool sa pagfact-check ng mga litrato.
Misplaced compassion
The Supreme Court’s unanimous decision granting the full retirement benefits of the late chief justice Renato Corona, despite his impeachment in 2012, is quite unsettling. It sends the wrong signal to public officials that it is all right to be dishonest for as long as they serve at least 15 years in government.
Life Under Covid-19: Writing Grit and Grace
Filipino mothers bear the brunt of lives disrupted by the ongoing global pandemic, as detailed out in an e-book, In Certain Seasons: Mothers Write in the Time of Covid, 2020, published by the CCP Intertextual Division and its partner, the Philippine Center of PEN International.
Migrant Workers in ASEAN: ‘COVID-19 Brings Us to Zero’
“We don’t know why this has happened,” Yuyun Wahyuningrum, Indonesia’s representative to the ASEAN Inter-governmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) says, with a tinge of frustration .
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Photo of DOH-WHO press briefing NOT RECENT
The image is a year old.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Blogger MISLEADS with FB post on Nobel Peace Prize nomination rule
The secrecy rule applies only to the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
