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Contrary to Dela Rosa’s statement, Canada -- not the Philippines -- has the longest coastline in the world, as cited in a report by the UN Environment Programme.

The report was published in 2017.

It was a project of Butuan City's former mayor.

The video’s headline and thumbnail do not reflect its content.

The girl in the video ran away from home and was not abducted.

From calling it “the right step,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo now calls Vice President Leni Robredo’s meeting with officials from the United States (US) and United Nations (UN) as “missteps” that led to her ouster as co-chair of the government’s anti-illegal drug efforts.

Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo contradicted President Rodrigo Duterte’s prior pronouncement that Vice President Maria Leonor “Leni” Robredo was on a “need to know” basis when she was Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs (ICAD) co-chair.

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Two photos of the Philippine flag being illegally used as a tablecloth are currently making the rounds on the Internet. A lot of netizens assumed it was done as part of the country’s hosting of the 30th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games. This is not true.

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Another misleading post about “The Big One,” which the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) describes as a “strong” and “destructive” earthquake, is making the rounds on the Web.

Former broadcast journalist Jay Sonza, who has previously spread misleading information online, falsely claimed United States President Donald Trump "wants to replicate" President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war.

A video introducing the government’s task force to end communist insurgency contains several erroneous details, from the state of the Philippine economy in the 1960s to the use of a wrong logo of the country’s economic planning agency.

House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano bloated the number of illegal drug users cited in a 2001 Letter of Instruction (LOI) ten times, repeating President Rodrigo Duterte’s baseless claim on current number of drug addicts.

Sen. Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go’s claim that the number of drug lords in the Philippines went down under the leadership of President Rodrigo Duterte has no basis.

The series of strong earthquakes that caused massive structural damages in Mindanao in October has prompted the government to order the strict enforcement of the National Building Code (NBC).

President Rodrigo Duterte has called coal plants “clean energy” and urged the private sector to invest more in these types of facilities.

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Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo wrongly claimed Vice President Leni Robredo was asked to “desist from attending” Cabinet meetings back in 2016 because the president “did not want to embarrass” her in front of other Cabinet members.

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