Archive - FACT CHECK Year 2017 all 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 Items per page 12 12 18 24 30 FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: How much does President Duterte earn monthly? President Rodrigo Duterte made a fuss about the relatively low pay he has been receiving as president of the country. By VERA Files | Apr 11, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Are atheists not bound by family laws? Defending House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez from possible disbarment due to infidelity, President Rodrigo Duterte said non-Christians such as atheists are exempted from the “rules of the number of women (one) can have.” By VERA Files | Apr 8, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Duterte’s oxygen concentrator Photos of President Rodrigo Duterte showing a blue contraption beside his bed in his residence in Davao City surfaced online on his birthday on May 28. By VERA Files | Apr 7, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Is Davao City ‘relatively safe’? President Rodrigo Duterte said Davao City is ‘relatively safe’. Is it? By VERA FILES | Apr 7, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Is Davao City’s economic growth unprecedented in the country’s history? Is the president correct in saying that Davao City's growth is “unprecedented”? By VERA FILES | Apr 6, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK How good a fact-checker are you? Test your fact-checking skills with us. By VERA FILES | Apr 2, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Are there EU countries with death penalty? The president says there are EU countries with death penalty. Is that so? By VERA FILES | Apr 1, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte changes stand on same-sex marriage President Rodrigo Duterte earlier this month said he cannot approve of same-sex marriage because the law allows marriage only between a man and a woman. By Vera Files | Mar 31, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK Alternative facts: Is that so? A forum for the International Fact-checking Day Join us at the UP College of Mass Communication Auditorium this Wednesday, March 29, 10 a.m. to noon, as the Department of Journalism and Vera Files hold "Alternative Facts: IS THAT SO?", a forum to mark the First International Fact-Checking Day. By VERA Files | Mar 27, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Then and now: How these lawmakers stand on the death penalty Have these lawmakers stuck to or changed their stand on the death penalty since 2006? By VERA FILES | Mar 27, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Has the drug war resulted in 7,000 to 8,000 deaths? First, it was 7,000. Now, the disputed body count in the war on drugs has been raised further to 8,000 by no less than Vice President Leni Robredo’s legal adviser, former Akbayan Representative Ibarra Gutierrez. By Vera Files | Mar 25, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: ICC can strip off Duterte’s immunity President Rodrigo Duterte invoked presidential immunity when he threatened to kill criminals and drug addicts during his Aug. 5 speech before troops in Capiz. By VERA Files | Mar 19, 2017 | 4-minute read KEEP READING Posts pagination Newer posts 1 … 9 10 11 12 13 Older posts