Archive - FACT CHECK

President Rodrigo Duterte erred in claiming that the Spanish flu pandemic happened before the First World War (WWI) started in 1914.

It's still the same from 1898.

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On the contrary, quarantine restrictions will be relaxed in several regions.

It was taken in 2017.

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It twists a statement made by ABS-CBN.

It's a sham.

Don't be fooled by the hoax on the Foo Fighters frontman.

It shows an infant from 7 years ago.

It's been debunked by several public health experts and WHO.

It deferred action on ABS-CBN's petition for a TRO.

Lawyer Larry Gadon wrongly claimed the Supreme Court (SC) junked broadcast network ABS-CBN’s petition for a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the cease and desist order of the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC).

The bill was never passed and thus could not be “revoked."

The advisory covers only a municipality in Palawan.

Taking off from erroneous assertions of President Rodrigo Duterte, Palace Spokesperson Harry Roque has claimed that the Philippines was the “first ever” country to declare a lockdown in the region in a bid to control the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

Two Facebook (FB) pages red-tagged Rowena “Weng” Paraan, head of ABS-CBN’s citizen journalism arm Bayan Mo, Ipatrol Mo, by using a seven-year-old photo of her conducting a safety training for fellow journalists in Mindanao and falsely claiming it showed wounded communist rebels in the mountains.

DOH data show that the rate of increase in the total number of confirmed cases in NCR from May 16 to May 17 is less than 2.21 percent, far from Sonza's claim of 83 percent.

It again declared a state of emergency on April 14.

The city has not closed its borders again.

Martial law has been a part of President Rodrigo Duterte’s vocabulary since he assumed power in 2016, and Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo appears to share this fascination.

Estrellita Juliano-Tamano, president of the Federation of International Cable TV and Telecommunications Association of the Philippines (FICTAP), falsely claimed that media network ABS-CBN violated the law for broadcasting on multiple channels under one franchise.

It is false and has been debunked by experts.

There is still no schedule for the next tranche of cash assistance.

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President Rodrigo Duterte’s remark about horses developing immunity through the injection of blood from deceased coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients needs context.

He passed away 36 years before Duterte became president.