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The claims were based on the conjectures by a reporter in soliciting a reaction from three presidential candidates.

In an email to VERA Files Fact Check, Sison said he has neither been advising Robredo nor consulting with her spokesperson Barry Gutierrez.

Sen. Imee Marcos wrongly claimed that her father, former president Ferdinand Marcos Sr., was awarded three types of military decorations from the U.S. government for his military service during the Second World War. 

FB pages supporting Bongbong Marcos and Sara Duterte-Carpio published an edited image to claim that a million people gathered at Robredo’s Cebu grand rally.

Robredo never referred to the Barzaga family as traitors or idiots.

Exit poll results like the one currently circulating online should not be considered a reliable source to establish a trend in the outcome of elections. 

Despite the hashtags #SatireNews and #parody indicated in the post, some netizens believed the story was true.

Marcos was not among those listed as authors of Senate Bill (SB) No. 1297 because he was no longer a senator when the bill was signed into law on Feb. 14, 2019. %

Netizens revived an old report about the charges filed against Vice President Leni Robredo in 2019 to insinuate that she does not have a “clean record.”

A Facebook (FB) page falsely claimed that the Commission on Elections (Comelec) admitted to attempting election fraud against presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.

A Facebook (FB) video originally posted on Tiktok claimed that Vice President Leni Robredo led the 2016 vice presidential race after a brownout occurred during vote counting. Not true.

An official bio page of Louise “Liza” Araneta-Marcos, wife of presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., listed her as a member of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA), a private voluntary membership association for licensed attorneys in the state of New York.

For at least the second time, senatorial candidate Salvador Panelo repeated a wrong claim that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has “no jurisdiction” to investigate alleged crimes against humanity associated with President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs.

Aquino already belied this claim in October 2016.

A YouTube video used two TikTok clips to claim that presidential candidate Leni Robredo’s campaign spent P468 million for the PasigLaban Grand Rally last month. This is false.

Several Facebook (FB) pages published a misleading video of Vice President Leni Robredo during her campaign sortie in Jagna, Bohol that clipped her statement so it sounded like she was promising a corrupt government.

Fake facebook (FB) posts about exchanging P20 peso coins for cash or sacks of rice are baits to a scam. They redirect users to an impostor website of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).

A statement made 10 years ago by singer-actress Sharon Cuneta about former first lady Imelda Marcos was revived and twisted to make it look like she is supporting the Marcos family in this year’s elections.

The report was “not support” for the Uniteam tandem.

The video snippet cut off the rest of the context.

In a recent public speech, President Rodrigo Duterte falsely claimed that the founding of the Philippine republic was in 1947. He also made an inaccurate claim that his relatives – the Durano political clan – have been leading Danao City, Cebu for “almost 15 decades.”

A reader asked VERA Files to verify the post.

Pushing to develop alternative energy sources in the country, presidential candidate Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson Sr. has claimed that the Philippines is the top biomass producer. This needs context.

“This information is incorrect,” Guinness World Records said.