Archive - FACT CHECK

COVID-19 is caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2.

It presented as fact an insinuation made in the commentary.

Comparisons of the real and digitally manipulated image show telltale signs of fraud.

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The posts also make several other inaccurate assertions.

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There are no official records or media stories on Robredo saying such a thing.

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President Rodrigo Duterte was still Davao City mayor then.

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On June 8, several netizens, including Pinoy Ako Blog author Jover Laurio, pointed out seemingly contradicting statements from San Juan City Mayor Francisco Zamora, who recently referred to his wife as a “stage 3 breast cancer patient” after claiming seven months ago that she was already “cancer free.”

President Rodrigo Duterte’s claim that the Philippines has a “low rate” of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) mortality based on population needs context.

It was photoshopped using two images.

For at least the third time, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro “Teddy Boy” Locsin Jr. falsely claimed that the serving of a warrant of arrest for illegal drugs triggered the Marawi siege.

Lawyer and environmentalist Robert Kennedy Jr., nephew of the late United States President John F. Kennedy, wrongly claimed that a dengue vaccine developed by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) was administered on children in the Philippines, making them more sick and even causing deaths.

It also misleadingly presents the title "strongman" as a praise.

The image was from 2018.

It is yet to be transmitted to the Office of the President.

They often attack only when people seriously disturb their nests.

There were at least 6 reports on the 2019 event.

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It contradicts a statement she made recently.

Three of the four clips were from a gas leak in India.

From stressing that the Philippines “did not need” the United States to “survive as a nation,” President Rodrigo Duterte, through his foreign affairs secretary, is now citing “political and other developments in the region” to delay by at least six months the termination of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA).

At least two Facebook (FB) pages and six private netizens, including former National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) chair Felipe Mendoza de Leon, reuploaded as new a photo from July 2019 showing flags of China and the Philippines supposedly hanging along the roads of Carmona, Cavite.

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The post skews a statement the Philippine ambassador to Japan made in 2019.

Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. marked the recent anniversary of the Marawi siege by defending the government's war on drugs.

She did not discredit the government’s efforts.

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