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The YouTube channel behind the claim has repeatedly published falsehoods.

President Duterte has not talked about renaming the NAIA in his speeches, nor has he signed any official order approving it. Congress has yet to pass the bill proposing to rename NAIA to “Pandaigdigang Paliparan ng Pilipinas (Philippine International Airport).

No house-to-house distribution of aid worth P10,000 is taking place.

Rebutting Palace Spokesperson Harry Roque’s statement that Congress has yet to pass a law exempting athletes from paying taxes on their winnings, Senate Minority Leader Franklin “Frank” Drilon was mistaken in noting that Republic Act No. 10699, enacted in 2015 during the term of the late President Benigno Aquino III, already provided a tax exemption for winnings in national and international sports competitions.

The use of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine in the Philippines resumed on May 7.

In the past five years of his presidency, President Rodrigo Duterte went from trying to talk peace with the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA), to declaring an all-out war with the movement to end the 52-year armed struggle within his term.

President Rodrigo Duterte and his chief legal counsel Salvador Panelo made three inaccurate claims about the International Criminal Court (ICC) in a recorded public address on July 28.

The false graphic first surfaced in June.

The law that introduced this cash incentive was signed in 2015.

After declaring last year that he would “not renege” on his decision to terminate the country’s Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the United States (U.S.), President Rodrigo Duterte backtracked and reinstated the controversial military deal as a “concession” following the donation of COVID-19 vaccines by Washington.

She gave a wrong interpretation of a recent announcement from the U.S. CDC.

The video's publisher has been flagged by VERA Files 13 times.

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.