VERA FILES FACT CHECK: FALSE ‘NAIA reverting to MIA’ claim resurfaces
Amid the Manila airport fiasco on New Year’s Day, a video falsely claims President Bongbong Marcos has ordered the renaming of NAIA to MIA.
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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: FALSE ‘NAIA reverting to MIA’ claim resurfaces">VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Zubiri falsely claims no drug-related killings under Marcos admin
Contrary to Zubiri’s claim, the Philippine National Police reported on Nov. 14 that 46 deaths occurred in 18,505 anti-drug operations since the Marcos administration assumed power on June 30. The police claimed the 46 individuals killed were suspects who resisted arrest.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marcos repeats claim on having the highest number of votes, needs context
While Marcos did garner the highest number of votes in Philippine electoral history, his share of the vote (58.7%) in the May 2022 balloting is only the country’s third highest vote percentage, next to former presidents Manuel L. Quezon (67.9%, 1935) and Ramon Magsaysay (68.9%, 1953).
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Zubiri changes tune on China placing PH on tourism blacklist
Senate President Juan Miguel "Migz" Zubiri has backtracked on his announcement that China had placed the Philippines on its blacklist of tourism destinations ”because of the problem with POGOs [Philippine offshore gaming operators].”
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Cardema falsely claims no disallowances were issued to NYC
In its 2021 audit report, COA ordered NYC to refund certain amounts of unauthorized or unsubstantiated prepaid load cards as well as irregular and unnecessary expenditures. It had previously issued notices of disallowance after flagging excessive claims of travel and meals in 2018 and “expenses not in accordance with existing government rules and regulations” in 2019.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Press Secretary misleads with statement that inflation is ‘not due to any local factors’
Sonny Africa, executive director of IBON Foundation, told VERA Files Fact Check in an email that while rising global prices of food and the depreciation of the peso, driven by interest rate hikes in the United States, are indeed immediate inflation factors, the government has “direct control over factors like the excise and value added taxes it puts on goods and services consumed or, like fuel, used to produce other goods and services.”
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Jinggoy Estrada’s remark that Marcos Jr. got ‘highest number of votes in PH history’ needs context
Sen. Jinggoy Estrada said President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. received the highest number of votes in Philippine history in the May 2022 elections, hence the public should “move on” from Martial Law. This needs context.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marcos Jr.’s statement that PH has ‘second highest’ HIV infection rate in the world needs context
Michel Beusenberg, information officer of the HIV/HEP/STI department at the WHO, said “The highest rates are in sub-Saharan Africa.”
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Dela Rosa’s claim on SIM card registration’s effects FALSE
Expressing his support for a bill mandating the registration of Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) cards, Sen. Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa claimed that the measure can help deter crime. This is false.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Mary Jane Veloso’s father falsely claims that previous presidents ‘did nothing’ to help her
In appealing to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to seek clemency for Mary Jane Veloso, an overseas worker from Nueva Ecija languishing in death row in Indonesia for smuggling heroin into that country, her father, Cesar, said that the two previous presidents were unable to help with the case. This is false.
