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."

Some users were also misled into thinking that the photo collage in the post showed a Shopee warehouse in the Philippines. The photos were all taken in Malaysia.

This post is fake. Don't believe it.

Tax collection reached the P1-trillion mark in 2012, not 2013.

“To date, there is no scientific evidence that eating instant noodles and (taking) carbonated drinks at the same time is hazardous to health,” said Dulcinea Balce-Santos, a gastroenterologist and a member of the Philippine Society for Gastroenterology (PSG) in an interview with VERA Files Fact Check.

Her family says she had not been vaccinated.

The revivals carried no indication that the statement was dated.

"There are very few studies on the effectiveness of lettuce leaves to enhance sleep,” said experts from the Philippine Institute of Traditional and Alternative Health Care (PITAHC) in an email to VERA Files Fact Check.

Its survey did not ask about Filipinos' preferences for potential tandems in 2022.

There has been no such announcement from either camp.

Six months after vehement declarations that she had no intention to run for president in the 2022 elections, Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio has said she is now open to the possibility of succeeding her father, President Rodrigo Duterte, in Malacañang.

Netizens continued to repost the misleading graphic even after GMA News issued a correction.

In six days, the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) retracted its resolution allowing local government units to accept vaccination cards or certificates of quarantine completion of fully vaccinated domestic travelers as “sufficient alternative[s]” to COVID-19 tests before travel or upon arrival at the destination.