On July 27, President Rodrigo Duterte delivered his penultimate State of the Nation Address (SONA), lasting approximately an hour and 40 minutes.
For the fourth year in a row, VERA Files monitored real-time the president’s claims about his administration’s achievements—this time, in the face of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
Here’s a roundup of our live fact checking.
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(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.)
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