FACT CHECK: Duterte repeats FALSE claim that U.S. has ‘so many bases’ in PH
Former president Rodrigo Duterte has repeated a false claim that the U.S. still has military bases in the Philippines.
Claims by Public Figures
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte seesaws again on calling Marcos a ‘drug addict’
In less than two months, former president Rodrigo Duterte went from denying that he described President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. as a “drug addict” to claiming he was the first to call the chief executive that.
FACT CHECK: Marcos falsely claims Cavite-Bataan bridge is world’s second longest
When completed, the Cavite-Bataan Interlink Bridge will be the second longest in the Philippines, but it is nowhere near the longest in the world, as Marcos claimed.
FACT SHEET: Are sovereignty and sovereign rights the same banana?
Marcos was “horrified” that an alleged agreement between Duterte and China may have “compromised” the territory, the sovereignty and the sovereign rights of the Philippines.
FACT CHECK: Marcos contradicts Duterte on return to old school calendar
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. contradicted the pronouncements of Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte on the return to the old academic calendar for elementary and high schools.
