VERA FILES FACT CHECK: FB Reel does NOT show China zombie outbreak
A Facebook user published a Reel claiming a virus that turns people into zombies has spread in China. Not true.
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A Facebook user published a Reel claiming a virus that turns people into zombies has spread in China. Not true.
Three-year-old clips of a maritime drill were passed off to claim that the China Coast Guard fired water cannons at the Philippine Coast Guard to drive them out of Pag-asa Island.
A Facebook reel supposedly shows a throng of people rushing outside a building in the US in an attempt to escape a “zombie virus” plague. This is not true.
A video falsely claims that the Indonesian government sunk 60 Chinese ships that were fishing in their territory last March 29.
On March 29, Sen. Francis Tolentino said he had “accepted the proposal” to be counsel of his colleague, Sen. Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa, before the International Criminal Court (ICC).
A video on FB is erroneously claiming that a cutter vessel of the United States Coast Guard fired at two Chinese ships for allegedly blocking the superpower’s vessel from entering the West Philippine Sea.
A Filipino Facebook page falsely claimed that the Indonesian navy has blown up a Chinese vessel illegally fishing in their country’s waters.
An old video of a German frigate is being passed off as a new clip showing a ship from Germany that just arrived in Mindanao. This is false.
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A video falsely passed off an old photo to claim that the Philippine Coast Guard fired water cannons at Chinese boats in the West Philippine Sea.