Archive - FACT CHECK

Yet another website is misusing the identity of former National Task Force against COVID-19 special adviser Tony Leachon to promote fake health products.

A TikTok video is rehashing bogus claims about the Marcos family’s supposed gold reserves stored in the World Bank. These “deposits” are non-existent.

Several impostor Facebook (FB) pages and sites are spreading a post about an antibacterial gel and claiming it is being promoted by cardiologist Willie Ong and his general practitioner wife Liza Ramoso-Ong. This is fake.  The couple is not endorsing this product called Kavern intimate wash. The photos and videos showing the couple holding the

A video on YouTube is claiming that President Ferdinand Marcos and Sen. Raffy Tulfo are planning to shut down NAIA. This is not true.

A video claims that the Marcos government and the U.S. are discussing a deal to build a nuclear facility in the Philippines. This is misleading.

A YouTube video has revived the false claim that Sen. Risa Hontiveros benefitted from PhilHealth's illegal bonuses in 2014. Records show Hontiveros was not involved in the mess. 

A video on Facebook is falsely claiming that thousands of American and Filipino soldiers were sent to the South China Sea to drive out Chinese ships in the area. 

A YouTube video falsely claims that President Bongbong Marcos has closed down Meralco. The power firm is still operating under its 25-year franchise.

Taking oral glutathione is not included in the guidelines to reverse non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, hepatologist Arlinking Ong-Go.

A video on YouTube erroneously claimed that Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano has been expelled from the Senate on the orders of President Ferdinand Marcos and former President Rodrigo Duterte.

Websites imitating ABS-CBN News posted a story on "Glucoactive", a diabetes remedy supposedly endorsed by Dr. Tony Leachon. The article is fabricated. 

The untrue claim that the late president Ferdinand Marcos obtained “the highest score ever in the history of Philippine bar exams” was revived a day after the Supreme Court announced the 2022 Bar Examination passers.

Several advertisements on Facebook are peddling a mixed cereal product that people are supposedly lining up to buy at a mall, allegedly claiming to provide a myriad of health benefits. This is a scam.

A Facebook user published a Reel claiming a virus that turns people into zombies has spread in China. Not true. 

Three-year-old clips of a maritime drill were passed off to claim that the China Coast Guard fired water cannons at the Philippine Coast Guard to drive them out of Pag-asa Island. 

Three FB pages are using the name of "Dr. Kilimanguru", a Filipino licensed physician with 4.1 million followers to promote a niacinamide toothpaste product.

A Facebook reel supposedly shows a throng of people rushing outside a building in the US in an attempt to escape a “zombie virus” plague. This is not true.

A YouTube video falsely claims that the administration cut P2.5 billion from UP's 2023 budget after recent protests at the Diliman campus.