Archive - FACT CHECK

But while vagrancy is not a crime, government officials clarified that vagrants, who violate local government ordinances or commit offenses under the Revised Penal Code, can still be arrested.

VERA Files fact-checked each claim made in the erroneous Jan 3 post.

President Rodrigo Duterte again wrongly claimed, during his Jan. 4 “Talk to the People” address, that the judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) are “white.”

His group has also claimed that the pandemic is not real and alleged the vaccine is killing people

Former broadcaster Jay Sonza incorrectly claimed that a daughter of Vice President Leni Robredo skipped community quarantine after arriving from abroad and later testing positive for COVID-19.

Robredo answered 14 out of 18 questions correctly.

A former special adviser to the National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 shared a false graphic that lists different symptoms supposedly from an infection with the Omicron virus variant. It surfaced as the country grappled with a post-holiday surge of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases.

This post is fake. Don't believe it.

There was no such filing, but several netizens believed otherwise and failed to recognize that the post was satire.

The government has not placed any part of the country under such a strict status recently.