When Duterte embraced China
Authors Marites Dañguilan Vitug and Camille Elemia raise the question: What can be done to make Filipinos believe that Duterte’s embrace of China is plain treachery?
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FACT CHECK: Hontiveros urging to build condos where the poor live NEEDS CONTEXT
A Facebook user claimed that Senator Risa Hontiveros urged the building of condos on land where the poor live.
FACT CHECK: NO Duterte chants at Alyansa proclamation rally
A TikTok user falsely claimed that the crowd chanted Duterte at Marcos slate proclamation rally in Iloilo.
FACT CHECK: NEED CONTEXT for De Lima ties to disbarred lawyer
De Lima denied ever knowing the disbarred lawyer, whose name does not appear among her election campaign donors.
FACT CHECK: Jimmy Bondoc falsely claims FBI has dropped charges vs Quiboloy
Kingdom of Jesus Christ founder Pastor Apollo Quiboloy remains on the most wanted list of the FBI. There has been no official announcement to the contrary from the U.S. federal authorities on the charges against him.
FACT CHECK: Quiboloy inaccurately cites 4Ps law as senior citizens’ pension law
Quiboloy’s attribution is inaccurate. R.A. No. 11310 is the law institutionalizing the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps), while R.A. No. 11916 is the Senior Citizens’ Pension Act.
Political neutrality
Can rabid Duterte defenders such as De la Rosa and another reelectionist senator, Bong Go, convincingly shed their partisanship and be impartial in deciding to either acquit or convict the vice president?
No Makapilis must be in the Senate
Today we have modern-day Makapilis who want to be senators.
Worse than before
What is troubling in this campaign is the incumbent president's negative campaigning despite the perceived better quality of his candidates compared to those backed by Duterte.
FACT CHECK: Marcoleta falsely claims no such thing as WPS, cites wrong data
The numbers Marcoleta cited are incorrect and outdated. They do not correspond to land features in the South China Sea claimed by each country, but the number of outposts put up in the Spratly Islands, which is only a portion of the disputed waters.
