On July 23, President Rodrigo Duterte delivered his third State of the Nation Address (SONA), his shortest so far at 48 minutes.
For the second year in a row, VERA Files monitored real-time the president’s claims about his administration’s achievements.
Here’s a roundup of our live fact checking.
(Guided by the code of principles of the International Fact-Checking Network at Poynter, VERA Files tracks the false claims, flip-flops, misleading statements of public officials and figures, and debunks them with factual evidence. Find out more about this initiative and our methodology.)
