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Widely circulating among social media users since May are inaccurate Facebook posts accusing the affluent Lopez family of "fooling the Filipinos for 34 years." Of the seven claims related to the Lopezes and their history, two are downright false, four need further context, and one is unfounded.
Issuing Philippine Depositary Receipts (PDRs) to foreigners does not equate to granting them actual ownership, contrary to a statement of ANAKALUSUGAN Party-list Rep. Mike Defensor on the denial of ABS-CBN’s franchise bid.
Former broadcaster Jay Sonza shared a screenshot of a misleading post that allegedly shows celebrities violating mandatory safety protocols amid the COVID-19 pandemic, while protesting in support of ABS-CBN Corp.
At least one Facebook (FB) page and three netizens, including singer and vocal administration critic Jim Paredes, published a fake quote card that shows Sen. Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go saying media giant ABS-CBN should not have “hurt President Rodrigo Duterte’s feelings” if it did not want to get shut down.
As petitions contesting the newly enacted Anti-Terror Law pile up, President Rodrigo Duterte went from tagging communists as the country’s “number one threat” to saying they are the “least” of its worries.
President Rodrigo Duterte made two inaccurate claims on the government’s coronavirus disease (COVID-19) response and the world’s history of past pandemics.
When asked to clarify some discrepancies in the numbers on the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque insisted on inaccurate data he earlier presented to the media and erroneously said those were for member-states of the Western Pacific region of the World Health Organization (WHO).
Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu inaccurately claimed that the Philippines was a commonwealth of the United States (U.S) when the Spanish flu ravaged the world in 1918.
On June 8, several netizens, including Pinoy Ako Blog author Jover Laurio, pointed out seemingly contradicting statements from San Juan City Mayor Francisco Zamora, who recently referred to his wife as a “stage 3 breast cancer patient” after claiming seven months ago that she was already “cancer free.”
Lawyer and environmentalist Robert Kennedy Jr., nephew of the late United States President John F. Kennedy, wrongly claimed that a dengue vaccine developed by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) was administered on children in the Philippines, making them more sick and even causing deaths.
