During the oath-taking ceremony of new members of the Partido Demokratiko ng Pilipinas-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) on Oct. 16, 2021, President Rodrigo Duterte accused the opposition Liberal Party (LP) for giving the Ayalas, a prominent business family in the country, a water distribution contract. His claim is false.
President Duterte once more claimed that the Commission on Audit has a “constitutional mandate” to audit the Philippine Red Cross, an independent, autonomous, non-government organization. This needs context.
From declaring in 2016 that people in same-sex marriage are worse than animals, Sen. Emmanuel “Manny” Pacquiao now insists he is neither condemning nor judging the members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) community.
Former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. wrongly claimed that the Philippines filed a complaint in the International Criminal Court (ICC) against China for its incursions into the West Philippine Sea.
Lawyer Larry Gadon has claimed that the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) receives substantial funding from the government. This is misleading.
A VERA Files reader has called attention to a Manila Times’ caption on a set of photos falsely claiming that “health workers” at the Manila COVID-19 Field Hospital have threatened to stage a labor strike due to inadequate compensation.
Rebutting Palace Spokesperson Harry Roque’s statement that Congress has yet to pass a law exempting athletes from paying taxes on their winnings, Senate Minority Leader Franklin “Frank” Drilon was mistaken in noting that Republic Act No. 10699, enacted in 2015 during the term of the late President Benigno Aquino III, already provided a tax exemption for winnings in national and international sports competitions.
An old photo of Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno'' Domagoso working while hooked up to a bag of fluids was revived this week by several Facebook (FB) accounts, including the FB page of a lawyer who had worked as a social media consultant for the Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO). It needs context.
From expressing that President Rodrigo Duterte will not likely vie for another position in the upcoming 2022 elections, Malacañang is now saying the president is “leav[ing] to God” the decision to run again, this time for the country’s second highest post.
People’s Television (PTV) News, a state-run media network, posted a misdated quote card of former ambassador Rosario Manalo, in which the latter inaccurately claimed that the Philippines “handpicked” the arbitration panel in the South China Sea maritime dispute with China.
