VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Mon Tulfo falsely claims Phivolcs failed to issue Taal eruption warning
Tulfo is wrong; Phivolcs had issued several warnings on Taal's possible eruption before its recent explosion.
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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Bongbong Marcos falsely claims martial law horrors fabricated
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is wrong in saying that plunder, massive corruption and human rights violations did not happen during his father's 20-year rule.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte was already campaigning as early as 2015
It could have been a slip, except the president says it is the “truth.” President Rodrigo Duterte, recalling his meeting two years ago with former president Benigno Aquino III on the day of the Mamasapano encounter, said he was in Zamboanga City to “campaign.”
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Are condoms just for birth control?
Comedian-turned-senator Vicente Sotto III thinks condoms are solely for contraception. Invoking science, he said a condom does not block the entry of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) into one’s system.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Are addicts ‘eternally’ hooked on drugs?
President Rodrigo Duterte is now likening addicts to slaves, describing them as eternally dependent on drugs.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Was Duterte referring to Najib, instead of Mahathir, as Malaysian PM?
President Rodrigo Duterte credited the arrest of an MNLF leader's son, and the ability to secure regional waters, to his good working relations with President Joko Widodo of Indonesia, and "Mahathir."
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Should credit go to Calida for winning the West Philippine Sea case?
In giving a rundown of the Office of the Solicitor General’s accomplishments since he went on board on June 30, 2016, Solicitor General Jose Calida appeared to have grabbed credit from his predecessors.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Did Pangilinan law produce a generation of criminals?
For President Rodrigo Duterte, the law is to be blamed for the number of children out on the streets committing crime.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte wants to declare martial law?
What do martial law and the Abu Sayyaf have in common? On both issues, President Rodrigo Duterte had flip-flopped, and then, flipped, or flopped, again.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte commits to put an end to Abu Sayyaf yet again
AFTER numerous flip-flops on how he would handle the Abu Sayyaf Group, President Rodrigo Duterte has backpedaled once again, this time announcing it through his spokesperson, Undersecretary Ernesto Abella. STATEMENT: In a Radyo ng Bayan interview, Abella said the president reiterated his vow to end the terrorist group during the annual joint command conference with
