Archive - FACT CHECK

Two 'provisions' are downright false, while the other two are misleading.

Chayra Ganal, the cleaner who disallowed trans woman Gretchen Diez to use the women’s restroom at Farmers Plaza mall, was not fired from her job as was posted.

Here's a round up of our live fact checking.

A Facebook post of a Filipino netizen about the alleged use of snake meat as an ingredient in several street food is false. The photos used in the post were neither from the Philippines nor for street food production. A similar story has already been debunked in Thailand.

These reports are fake.

This story is false. Don't believe it.

On orders of President Rodrigo Duterte, 10 high-profile convicts from the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa were transferred to the Philippine Marine Barracks in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City, citing “threats to their security.”

Disqualified Duterte Youth party-list nominee and former National Youth Commission head Ronald Cardema made three false claims in his Notice of Withdrawal submitted before the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Sept. 13.

The photo is not from an anti-SOGIE bill protest.

The post is fake.

Fresh from his five-day official visit to China, President Rodrigo Duterte went from “invoking” to “ignoring” the Philippines’ historic win on the South China Sea dispute at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA).

By seeking to penalize only “false and deceiving content online,” the bill neglects disinformation that spread through other vectors.

Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) spokesperson Assistant Secretary Celine Pialago is wrong in saying the government has not built any infrastructure or made any effort to solve the traffic congestion in Metro Manila in the past 40 years. MMDA in itself was established 24 years ago to address that.

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This post is fake. Don't believe it.

Iloilo 1st district representative Janette Garin has changed her stance on the effectivity of the Department of Health’s (DOH) dengue prevention program called the Enhanced 4S Strategy. From promoting it as “key” strategy against the spread of dengue when she was still health secretary, Garin now thinks the strategy has minimal effect.

The post mishmashes two separate statements.

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This post is fake. Don't believe it.

These posts are fake. Don't believe them.

From calling President Rodrigo Duterte a coddler of the New People’s Army (NPA), retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan Jr., who was convicted of kidnapping and serious illegal detention, now “believes” Duterte is the only president who can “end” the communist insurgency in the country.

A video that has gained over 130,000 views fused together facts with false and misleading information regarding the ongoing vote recount between Vice President Leni Robredo and former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.

The comedian could be seen up and about in the latest episode of Eat Bulaga!.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) will resume on Sept. 6 the preliminary investigation on the multiple charges the Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (PNP-CIDG) filed against Vice President Leni Robredo and 37 others.