Archive - FACT CHECK

Sen. “Bato” Dela Rosa belied allegations that former president Rodrigo Duterte was threatening ACT Party-list Rep. France Castro, whom Duterte baselessly accused as a “communist” in Congress that “he wanted to kill.”

While Marcos has vowed that his administration’s anti-drug campaign will have a “new face,” centered on rehabilitation and addressing drug dependence, it is not bloodless.

Filipino netizens uploaded on Facebook and TikTok a compilation video of wildfires in Argentina falsely claiming that they were scenes from the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict.

A video claimed without evidence that the Philippines fired warning shots against Chinese naval ships approaching Subic.

A Facebook user uploaded a reel supposedly of an Iranian aircraft targeting Israel amid the escalating Israel-Hamas conflict. The video is false and shows jets in an air show rehearsal.

Ngayong wala na sa poder si dating pangulong Rodrigo Duterte, may naisip siyang solusyon sa lumalalang hidwaan ng Pilipinas at China sa West Philippine Sea.

A YouTube video claimed that the United States (U.S.) had declared war on Palestine, following the ongoing armed conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. This is not true.

A video falsely claims that the biggest drug operation and anti-rice smuggling operations only happened during the Marcos administration.

Videos circulating online claim that the government ordered the reclamation of the land occupied by the Socorro Brigade Services Inc. (SBSI) in Surigao del Norte and the deployment of troops in the area. This is misleading.

It is not true that the militant group Hamas, which rules Gaza, has surrendered to Israel.

A misleading video on Facebook is showing clips of the 2020 catastrophic explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, not the Israel-Hamas conflict.

The Marcos administration has removed the anniversary of the 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution from the list of holidays for 2024 “because [it] falls on a Sunday."