Archive - FACT CHECK

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.

A video falsely claims that the Indonesian government sunk 60 Chinese ships that were fishing in their territory last March 29. 

On March 29, Sen. Francis Tolentino said he had “accepted the proposal” to be counsel of his colleague, Sen. Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa, before the International Criminal Court (ICC).

A video misleadingly insinuates that the general Filipino public can start receiving their pensions as early as 40 years old.

A video on FB is erroneously claiming that a cutter vessel of the United States Coast Guard fired at two Chinese ships for allegedly blocking the superpower’s vessel from entering the West Philippine Sea.

Two Filipino Facebook users shared TikTok videos allegedly showing Celine Dion on her deathbed. The woman in the video is not the Canadian singer. 

The MBC and FINEX did not explicitly say they are against amending the economic provisions of the Constitution. However, they opposed the mode preferred by the House to introduce amendments, emphasizing the high cost of constituting a Con-con and the timing to do it.

A Filipino Facebook page falsely claimed that the Indonesian navy has blown up a Chinese vessel illegally fishing in their country’s waters.

Four FB pages claimed that dozens of people fainted while buying Japanese mini air conditioners in Pasay. These rehashed claims from a previous scam modus are fake.

An old video of a German frigate is being passed off as a new clip showing a ship from Germany that just arrived in Mindanao. This is false.

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Only the government’s request to suspend the resumption of the drug war probe was junked by the ICC Appeals Chamber on March 27.

A video falsely claims that President Bongbong Marcos appointed SAGIP partylist Rep. Rodante Marcoleta as agriculture secretary.