VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Claim that CPP founder Joma Sison ‘advises’ Robredo presidential campaign has no basis
In an email to VERA Files Fact Check, Sison said he has neither been advising Robredo nor consulting with her spokesperson Barry Gutierrez.
Claims by Public Figures
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Imee Marcos falsely claims Marcos Sr. led WWII guerilla unit, awarded U.S. war medals
Sen. Imee Marcos wrongly claimed that her father, former president Ferdinand Marcos Sr., was awarded three types of military decorations from the U.S. government for his military service during the Second World War.
FACT CHECK: After supporting call for ‘global ceasefire’ amid pandemic, Duterte says truce with ‘Reds’ is ‘dead’
In just four days, President Rodrigo Duterte went from expressing support to the proposal in the United Nations (UN) for a global ceasefire during the pandemic to killing any possibility of a truce with the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) for the rest of his term.
FACT CHECK: Duterte gov’t blows hot and cold on defense ‘arrangement’ with US
The Duterte administration sent mixed signals on coming up with an “arrangement” on defense matters with the United States (U.S.) when it recently suspended for another six months the abrogation of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA).
FACT CHECK: Ex-education usec echoes viral false claim on ‘cut’ in US COVID-19 deaths
Former Education undersecretary and 2019 senatorial aspirant Antonio “Butch” Valdes propagated an incorrect claim about the United States (U.S.) Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) “finally admitting” that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) death count in the U.S. is way less than was originally reported.
