Archive - FACT CHECK

Several Facebook pages misrepresented video game content as real combat footage taken during the Israel-Hamas war.

A video is claiming that VP Sara Duterte has given several orders to remove all “anti-Marcos” information in public school textbooks and revise content taught about the martial law period. This needs context.

Japanese naval commander Noguchi Yuta did not threaten a war against China if the latter did not follow laws of the sea.

A YouTube video is claiming that Congress had kicked out Vice President Sara Duterte-Carpio from her post. Not true.

A video showing a tower in Gaza leveled by an Israeli airstrike is being passed off as a recent event. This needs context.

Yet another website imitating The Manila Times posted a story endorsing a cryptocurrency trading platform supposedly endorsed by ex-Finance secretary Carlos Dominguez III. This is a rehashed hoax.

Bakit nagbago ang hirit ni Vice President Sara Duterte tungkol sa hinihinging P650-million confidential at intelligence funds sa 2024 national budget?

A video has claimed that ACT Teachers Party-list Rep. France Castro pushed for an increase in the budget of the office of the former vice president but is now blocking additional funding for the office of current Vice President Sara Duterte. This needs context.

Facebook pages posted a clip from a military simulation video game and falsely claimed it was taken in Israel as its clash with Hamas escalates.

Tinanggal ng House of Representatives ang confidential at intelligence funds (CIF) ng limang civilian agencies ng gobyerno, kasama ang Office of the Vice President (OVP) at Department of Education (DepEd), sa panukalang national budget para sa 2024.

FB pages and groups imitating DSWD uploaded lists of chosen beneficiaries and online registration for the agency’s supposed scholarship program. These posts are fake.

A YouTube video is claiming that the Senate ordered the closure of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office or PCSO. Not true.

A fake quote card of VP Sara Duterte supposedly saying she spent P20 million in confidential funds a day as Davao City mayor is circulating on Facebook.

The Office of the Vice President, under Leni Robredo, did not have confidential and intelligence funds from 2016 until the end of her term in 2022, based on the annual audit reports of the Commission on Audit.

A YouTube video erroneously claimed that the Philippines and Canada have signed a mutual defense treaty. This is not true.

Multiple YouTube videos are claiming that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. had ordered that Sen. Robin Padilla be removed from the Senate, jailed or banished from the country. There were no such orders from Marcos.

A YouTube video used altered clips from an air show to falsely claim that the Philippines has tested its fighter aircraft supposedly bought from Sweden. This is not true.

Contrary to a YouTube video’s claim, China was not kicked out of ASEAN because it is not a member state.