FACT CHECK: Comelec is NOT hiring poll watchers for May 12 polls
Multiple graphics circulating on Facebook are claiming that the Comelec is hiring poll watchers for the May 12 elections. These are fake.
Multiple graphics circulating on Facebook are claiming that the Comelec is hiring poll watchers for the May 12 elections. These are fake.
A clip of dismissed mayor Alice Guo of Bamban, Tarlac supposedly criticizing Marikina City Rep. Maan Teodoro is circulating on Facebook. This is fake.
A video advisory supposedly from Vice Ganda warning the public against voting for reelectionist Rep. Lordan Suan of Cagayan de Oro City is circulating on Facebook. This is fabricated.
A clip showing a Philippine National Police Academy (PNPA) graduate supposedly ignoring President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. during a commencement ceremony on April 29 is circulating online. The video is incomplete and misleading.
Netizens circulated a fake quote card showing senatorial candidate Francis "Kiko" Pangilinan supposedly vowing to vote, if elected on May 12, for the impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte.
A video circulating online shows supporters of opposing candidates in a brawl supposedly ahead of the May 12 midterm elections. This is false.
A YouTube video claims that Batangas Rep. Gerville Luistro will be suspended for vote buying and premature campaigning. This is misleading.
As the former president is in the middle of a legal process, particularly the pre-trial stage, of the ICC, he cannot walk free unless the court approves his temporary release. A senator has no power to bring him back from detention in The Hague.
Amid the acrimonious battle between the Marcos and Duterte camps, reelectionist Sen. Imee Marcos has finally chosen whose side to take.
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