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.
At least two Facebook (FB) pages and six private netizens, including former National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) chair Felipe Mendoza de Leon, reuploaded as new a photo from July 2019 showing flags of China and the Philippines supposedly hanging along the roads of Carmona, Cavite.
President Rodrigo Duterte erred in claiming that the Spanish flu pandemic happened before the First World War (WWI) started in 1914.
Taking off from erroneous assertions of President Rodrigo Duterte, Palace Spokesperson Harry Roque has claimed that the Philippines was the “first ever” country to declare a lockdown in the region in a bid to control the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
Two Facebook (FB) pages red-tagged Rowena “Weng” Paraan, head of ABS-CBN’s citizen journalism arm Bayan Mo, Ipatrol Mo, by using a seven-year-old photo of her conducting a safety training for fellow journalists in Mindanao and falsely claiming it showed wounded communist rebels in the mountains.
DOH data show that the rate of increase in the total number of confirmed cases in NCR from May 16 to May 17 is less than 2.21 percent, far from Sonza's claim of 83 percent.
Estrellita Juliano-Tamano, president of the Federation of International Cable TV and Telecommunications Association of the Philippines (FICTAP), falsely claimed that media network ABS-CBN violated the law for broadcasting on multiple channels under one franchise.
