Can Congress ever let go of pork?
If the 2026 budget is truly pork-free, then lawmakers should finally be liberated to do what the Constitution mandates: legislate.
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Filipino voices in a Geneva basilica
For nearly 30 years, an all-Filipino choir has sustained the only English Sunday Mass at the Basilica of Notre Dame.
When Art remembers and Artists never forget
The first 25 years of the 21st century is almost over, and the turmoil around us continues. A recent exhibit, Hardware 3: Resistance is Fertile at Kaida Contemporary, Quezon City, reflects on the country’s socio-political trajectories through 33 art works by 12 visual artists attuned to the pulse and sentiments of the streets and to the particularities of history.
2025 Oblation Run tackles government corruption
The Alpha Phi Omega fraternity at the University of the Philippines-Manila held its the annual Oblation Run last Dec. 12 with the massive corruption involving senators, congressmen, public officials and private contractors in the government's flood control projects as the target of its protest action.
Inside COP11: A young Filipino advocate saw how the tobacco industry speaks
“What stood out to me was this: the tobacco industry doesn’t even have to speak in the room to be heard. Its arguments were echoed, almost word-for-word, by the governments that are supposed to be protecting public health.”
IFCN statement on U.S. visa restrictions targeting fact-checkers
Fact-checking is journalism. It is the straightforward work of comparing public claims against the best available evidence and publishing the results for all to see. This work strengthens public debate — it does not censor it. It is protected within the United States by the First Amendment, and the U.S. has long supported similar press freedoms internationally. To conflate this work with censorship is to misunderstand what fact-checkers do, or to deliberately misrepresent it.
VERA Files launches SEEK, an AI-powered chatbot built on 17 years of Philippine journalism
On Nov. 30, VERA Files introduced SEEK, its new AI-powered archival chatbot, now available in public beta for free. The announcement was made by Celine Samson, head of VERA Files’ online verification team, during the #JournalismAI Festival in London from Nov. 11 to 12.
VERA Files’ Celine Samson: Avoid overreliance on AI-detection tools
Celine Samson, head of VERA Files online verification, was at the JournalismAI Festival 2025 in London last month where she shared insights about VERA Files’ use of artificial intelligence in combatting disinformation.
SC, ICC on a collision course over case of ‘Tokhang’ survivor Efren Morillo
The Supreme Court is on a collision course with the International Criminal Court over the dismissal of a petition to review the case of Efren Morillo, an eyewitness and survivor of the war on drugs of former president Rodrigo Duterte, who has been detained at the Scheveningen facility while awaiting trial for charges of crimes against humanity in The Hague, Netherlands.
Meet SEEK, our AI chatbot built on 17 years of reporting
SEEK is VERA Files' AI chatbot. Think of it as having a research partner who's read everything we've ever published since 2008.
