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The average retail prices of pork have ballooned by nearly 100% since the first case of African Swine Fever (ASF) was confirmed in the country in August 2019.

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) shared on Facebook (FB) a column published in The Manila Times that bore inaccurate claims about the late senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr.’s death and supposed ties to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).

In justifying the unilateral abrogation of the 1989 UP-DND Accord and the re-entry of police patrol forces in the University of the Philippines (UP) campuses to quell the alleged recruitment by communist rebels, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana mistakenly claimed that every barangay in Metro Manila has a police precinct.

This is not the first time the video of the August 2020 Bonoua protest was used in a wrong context.

The site that published the hoax masquerades as a legitimate site of the GMA news program 24 Oras.

This is a malicious spin on an actual statement made by Elago.

The Davao city mayor has made no such announcement.

In his social media accounts on Feb. 1, former senator Antonio “Sonny” Trillanes IV cited incorrect data on Israel’s coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination program. His claim on the vaccination status of the member-states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) needs context.

Former broadcaster Jay Sonza, a Facebook (FB) user, and an FB page posted a manipulated photo of Manila Bay’s dolomite beach that has been debunked several times by fact-checkers.

In just two days, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. went from saying the passage of China’s new coast guard law — which allows it to fire on foreign vessels in China-claimed maritime areas — was “none of our business,” to calling it a “verbal threat of war” to those who will violate it.

The former chief executive did not get that grade, although he was the bar topnotcher that year with a score of 92.35%.

The claim of Executive Director Joel Egco of the Presidential Task Force on Media Security about the conviction of the accused in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre needs context.