Voting unanimously, the Supreme Court (SC), sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET), dismissed “the entire electoral protest” that former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. filed against Vice President Leni Robredo to wrestle the country’s second highest post.
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) shared on Facebook (FB) a column published in The Manila Times that bore inaccurate claims about the late senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr.’s death and supposed ties to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).
In justifying the unilateral abrogation of the 1989 UP-DND Accord and the re-entry of police patrol forces in the University of the Philippines (UP) campuses to quell the alleged recruitment by communist rebels, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana mistakenly claimed that every barangay in Metro Manila has a police precinct.
In his social media accounts on Feb. 1, former senator Antonio “Sonny” Trillanes IV cited incorrect data on Israel’s coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination program. His claim on the vaccination status of the member-states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) needs context.
From asserting, at least three times, that the government's agreement with Chinese firm Sinovac on the procurement of vaccines against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was already a "done deal," Palace Spokesperson Harry Roque now says it is "not yet final."
From seeing "sense" in the Department of National Defense's (DND) unilateral termination of its 1989 accord with the University of the Philippines (UP), Sen. Panfilo "Ping" Lacson now says it should "go back to the drawing board."
President Rodrigo Duterte mistakenly claimed that all the judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) are “White” when he responded to the December 2020 update of the court’s preliminary examination into alleged crimes against humanity committed in the government’s war on drugs.
Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo made two inaccurate claims on the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) ongoing preliminary examination into alleged crimes against humanity committed in President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs.
The Philippines, functioning under one of the world’s longest lockdowns amid the pandemic, is pinning its hopes on a vaccine to fight coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The vaccine has not reached its shores but a wave of misinformation about it has started to spread.
President Rodrigo Duterte and his government met the deluge of inaccurate claims about the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic with a clampdown on what it referred to as “fake news.”
