VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Post on Cynthia Villar’s FB page that rice prices did not increase due to tariffication law is false
Since the Rice Tariffication Law was enacted in March 2019, local rice prices have gone up.
Claims by Public Figures
FACT CHECK: Sen. Revilla errs in claiming Imelda Marcos ‘instituted’ flood control tax
“The council and flood tax were clearly not proposals emanating from either head of the conjugal dictatorship,” according to the Marcos Regime Research Group of the UP Third World Studies Center.
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.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marcos contradicts DFA, NTF-WPS on Ayungin Shoal
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. contradicted the assertions of the Department of Foreign Affairs and the National Task Force for the West Philippine Sea that the 2016 arbitral court decision had declared the area as part of the Philippine exclusive economic zone and continental shelf.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marcos’ report on decreasing food prices in SONA is misleading
PSA said food inflation has slowed down to 6.7% in June 2023 from 7.5% in the previous month. However, it is still higher than the 6.4% recorded food inflation in June 2022.
