Archive - FACT CHECK

In his sixth and final State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 26, President Rodrigo Duterte claimed that media giant ABS-CBN has not been paying its taxes properly, adding that the network pays only a small percentage of its supposed property tax. This is false.

President Rodrigo Duterte claimed in his final State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 26 that his 2016 order on freedom of information opened up to the public various types of government records and issuances. This needs context.

The FB post and PNA’s July 26 report both need context, as Duterte’s claim is not true and has already been refuted by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) at least twice last year.

The same false claim has circulated earlier this year, and in 2018.

The FB page, in its caption, misleadingly attributed Enrile's statement on oligarchs to Bongbong Marcos, whose photo was used in the graphic.

In his sixth and final State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 26, President Rodrigo Duterte falsely claimed the 2016 arbitral award, which nullified China’s expansive nine-dash line claim over the South China Sea, does not bind Beijing.

Locally, vaccine wastage often happens due to “oversight in the monitoring of vaccine storage temperatures."

The video based its claim on a July 5 column of Bobi Tiglao in the Manila Times.

A reverse image search showed that the FB page WE ARE AS ONE compiled two unrelated video reports published separately last April:

While others recognized the quote card was fake by citing a GMA News article, netizens who believed it was real called the artist “stupid” and “envious.” An FB user who claimed to be a fan of DJ Loonyo advised him to “just be happy for Hidilyn Diaz’s victory.”

Graphene oxide is not an ingredient in Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine, according to a fact sheet published by the pharmaceutical company. Kit Longley, senior manager of science media relations at Pfizer-BioNTech, confirmed this in a statement to the Associated Press.

"While it is true that I join the rest of the country in celebrating the historic Olympic gold medal win of Hidilyn Diaz, it is absolutely untrue that the fake "congratulatory message" using my picture (and now circulating online) came from me, or anyone from the Quezon City government."