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Palace Spokesperson Harry Roque contradicted Interior and Local Government Secretary Eduardo Año when he said there will be no “house-to-house” operations to look for individuals infected with COVID-19.

At least one Facebook (FB) page and three netizens, including singer and vocal administration critic Jim Paredes, published a fake quote card that shows Sen. Christopher Lawrence “Bong” Go saying media giant ABS-CBN should not have “hurt President Rodrigo Duterte’s feelings” if it did not want to get shut down.

After the committee on legislative franchises of the House of Representatives rejected ABS-CBN’s bid for a new 25-year franchise, some lawmakers still wanted an investigation of the network’s blocktime agreement with AMCARA Broadcasting Network.

As petitions contesting the newly enacted Anti-Terror Law pile up, President Rodrigo Duterte went from tagging communists as the country’s “number one threat” to saying they are the “least” of its worries.

A reverse image search reveals the images were taken in the aftermath of Typhoon Urduja.

The netizen repeatedly mentioned conspiracy theories surrounding the disease that have been debunked by multiple fact checkers around the world.

There is no evidence of the actress making such a statement.

There are no news reports of Padilla being involved in a road mishap.

The bogus giveaways claim to raffle off P10,000 daily, among others.

No evidence support the extravagant claim.

Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque repeated the false claim of his predecessor Salvador Panelo that President Rodrigo Duterte has remained "neutral" on ABS-CBN's franchise renewal.

All images were shot under the term of President Rodrigo Duterte, who took office in June 2016.

Unless it has reached a person’s lungs, the bubonic plague does not spread from person to person.

The advisory is not found anywhere on AIIMS’ website nor YouTube channel.

Viruses do not have pH levels. Alkalizing food will not prevent or cure COVID-19.

In justifying his recent “side trip” to the Ocean Adventure park in Subic, Zambales, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque falsely claimed he did not violate any health and quarantine regulations.

President Rodrigo Duterte made two inaccurate claims on the government’s coronavirus disease (COVID-19) response and the world’s history of past pandemics.

It does not track or “sense” potential COVID-19 carriers automatically.

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When asked to clarify some discrepancies in the numbers on the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque insisted on inaccurate data he earlier presented to the media and erroneously said those were for member-states of the Western Pacific region of the World Health Organization (WHO).

It recycled a two-year old TIME magazine article.

No news reports support either of its claims.

Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu inaccurately claimed that the Philippines was a commonwealth of the United States (U.S) when the Spanish flu ravaged the world in 1918.

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