Archive - FACT CHECK

Political doublespeak: omission, diversion and confusion, characterized President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s first full year in office. More than half of his claims in 2023 lacked context, were flip-flops, or misleading.

How is an earthquake prediction different from an earthquake forecast? Here are three things you need to know.

In the social media landscape this year, disinformation peddlers sketched an image of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. as a decisive leader who fired errant officials and as a figure sought by foreign leaders for his wealth.

From clickbait headlines of videos to patently false claims, the allegations that he fired several errant government officials, withdrew wealth from foreign countries or that the Maharlika Fund will collate national wealth and pay the country’s debts all seemed to prop up President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s image.

Misleading claims of former president Rodrigo Duterte on the jurisdiction of the ICC continued to haunt the disinformation landscape in 2023 even as the current administration now considers cooperating in the tribunal’s ongoing probe into the bloody drug war.

What is the Sotto Law? Who does it protect? Here are five things you need to know.

A video on Facebook is erroneously claiming that a clip of divers experiencing an earthquake under the sea was taken in the Philippines. This is not true.

Netizens reshared a false chain message warning people against going to SM Mall of Asia.

The South Korean government is only set to give a small warship called a corvette, not a submarine, to the Philippines.

Two premature babies, not 39, died in Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital on Nov. 11, 2023.

Videos circulating on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok are claiming that a solar superstorm would cause a global internet outage for months. This is baseless.

BARMM Interior Minister Naguib Sinarimbo did not say Christians have no place in Marawi.