The 2023 Dahas Report: The casualties of Marcos’s “bloodless” drug war
The key hotspots for the killings are Davao del Sur, 61; Cebu, 52; Metro Manila, 41; Negros Occidental, 31; and Iloilo, 22.
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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Katwiran ng Palasyo sa hindi pagsama ng anibersaryo ng ‘People Power’ bilang holiday NAKAPANLILIGAW
Hindi isinama sa Proclamation 368 ang Peb. 25 sa listahan ng mga non-working holiday para sa 2024 "dahil [ito] ay pumatak sa araw ng Linggo."
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marcos’ claim that cap stabilized rice prices has NO BASIS
Asked during a briefing if the cap has failed to bring down rice prices given the high inflation rate, PSA Undersecretary Dennis Mapa said, “This is a research question that researchers would study based on the data that we are collecting.”
FACT CHECK: Bato Dela Rosa WRONG in saying LGUs ‘have discretion’ in spending confidential funds
Joint Circular 2015-01 prescribes specific activities where confidential funds can and cannot be used. It does not give LGUs discretion to spend confidential funds the way they want to.
FACT CHECK: Ombudsman flip-flops on publication of COA reports
After calling on Congress to remove from the General Appropriations Act a provision requiring the Commission on Audit to publish Audit Observation Memorandum, Ombudsman Samuel Martires changed his tune two days later, saying that what he actually meant was the removal of the requirement to publish COA’s Annual Audit Reports.
FACT CHECK: Manila lawmaker wrongly claims no law requires govt officials to submit SALN
Aside from the 1987 Constitution, at least three laws require public officials to file their SALN: Republic Act (RA) No. 3019 (Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act), RA 6713 (1989 Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for Public Officials and Employees), and RA 7160 (Local Government Code of 1991).
FACT CHECK: Quiboloy falsely claims Commission on Human Rights ‘doesn’t pry’ into human rights violations of the New People’s Army
The CHR investigates killings allegedly committed by the NPA. It launched at least two probes in April this year, and another two in May and October 2022.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Former Philstar.com editor not a CPP-NPA-NDF operative, as Badoy claims without evidence
“I am also no longer an editor at Philstar.com. I resigned in June and my last day was July 24, so there is no basis to connect me to the story – which was a legitimate story, in any case – at all,” said Jonathan De Santos, the incumbent chairperson of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Quezon was the Philippines’ first majority president, not Marcos Jr., as Gadon claims
Manuel L. Quezon was the first president elected by a majority of Filipinos with 67.99% of the total votes cast in 1935, while Ramon Magsaysay holds the record for the president who won with the highest percentage of 68.90% which he gained in the 1935 elections.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Did Marcos accept the resignations of 18 drug-linked PNP officers from their posts or were they dismissed from the service?
Almost three weeks after the acceptance of the resignations of the 18 high-ranking officers was announced, the PNP has yet to issue a categorical statement clarifying whether they were merely removed from their positions or dismissed from the police service.
