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VERA Files found signs of deliberately staged posts that spread disinformation from 13 Facebook accounts of alleged former policemen.

Financial rewards are likewise massive since Eala’s semifinal stint already assures the two-time Siklab Youth Sports Awardee a paycheck of US$332,160 (roughly P19 million) and could bump up to $597,890 (P34M) upon reaching the finals by defeating Pegula on Friday.She could end up fattening her bank account by $1,124,380 (P64.5M) once Eala goes all the way to seize the title, a mammoth vault from her total earnings of $32,000 this season.

The stunning arrest of former President Rodrigo Duterte by Interpol on March 11 has unleashed a torrent of disinformation across social media. Fabricated claims and misleading narratives widely cast him as a victim of injustice in an effort to garner public support.

Violence involving armed government personnel registered an increase while the police continue to lead in the killings of civilians who are subject of their operations, monitoring bySandatahang Dahas’s for February 2025 showed.

On the first appearance of former president Rodrigo Duterte before the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the Pre-Trial Chamber 1 rebuked his camp twice.

The Chamber verified the identity of the suspect and ensured that he was clearly informed of the crimes he is alleged to have committed and of his rights under the Rome Statute of the ICC in a language he fully understands and speaks.

Webstreaming of the Duterte initial hearing at ICC:The hearing can be followed in English and French on the ICC website (https://www.icc-cpi.int/) with a 30-minute delay.

“Buti pa siya, nakatikim ng tamang proseso kung paano hulihin,” said Kristina Conti, lawyer of drug war victims, following Duterte’s arrest for the ICC's probe into the drug-related killings in the Philippines.

There is reason to believe that more warrants of arrest would be issued for other personalities involved in the ICC’s probe of drug-related killings, following the Court's issuance of a warrant of arrest to Duterte.

The Philippine government has the option to speed up the turnover of former president Rodrigo Duterte to the ICC following his arrest on Tuesday upon arrival from Hong Kong.

This is a copy of the warrant of arrest issued by the International Criminal Court on March 7 and served on former president Rodrigo Duterte upon his arrival from Hong Kong Tuesday, March 11.

The year 2025 started with 31 persons killed in state-related violence for the month of January with more than half of the casualties attributed to the Philippine National Police, monitoring by Sandatahang Dahas of the UP Third World Studies Center (TWSC) showed.

VERA Files will train writers of the Presidential Communications Office (PCO) on fact-checking at no cost to the government.

The fear of many during the 2022 elections campaign that a Bongbong Marcos presidency would lead to more Marcos Sr. “glory days” propaganda has come true.

Since the Dahas Project started its weekly online monitoring in 2021, this is the first time that more killings were attributed to unidentified assailants than to state agents.

Unlike Sara Duterte, Carlito Dimailig issued no threats and just did it. Fifty-two years ago this month, with martial law eleven weeks in effect, at around five in the afternoon of Dec. 7, 1972, Carlito Dimailig lunged at then First Lady Imelda Romualdez Marcos with a 12-inch bolo.

A study has revealed that nearly half of the healthcare workers surveyed (10,000+) are considering quitting their jobs in medical facilities and exiting the national healthcare system.

Education Secretary Sonny Angara said the classroom shortage nationwide cannot be addressed using the DepEd’s regular budget alone.