Archive - FACT CHECK

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.

Sen. Robin Padilla did not call the president stupid. But he did throw the insult against his critics after his remark on the West Philippine Sea.

A fake quote card claimed that San Miguel Corp. Ramon Ang told people to avoid Starbucks to save money.

A Facebook page uploaded an ad for a product that allegedly treats arthritis, supposedly promoted by Willie Ong and Liza Ramoso-Ong. This ad is fake.

A quote card of VP Sara Duterte that shows her saying she can spend her offices’ confidential funds in an hour or a minute if she wants is fake.

A Facebook video claimed that the Philippines and South Korea have entered into an alliance to oppose China. This is false.

Facebook netizens resurfaced an old clip of Taal Volcano spewing plumes, claiming it happened last month. Not true. The clip was from the volcano’s eruption in March 2022. 

A Facebook page posted a fake front page of the Manila Bulletin that shows a headline about the Sandiganbayan ordering the arrest of CamSur Rep. LRay Villafuerte Jr. for an P800 million graft and corruption case.

A verified YouTube channel is claiming that Typhoon Jenny is twice as powerful as Super Typhoon Yolanda. This claim is false.

A two-month old YouTube video claimed that the US, in a show of force, flew a nuclear bomber plane over Chinese airspace. This is not true. 

A video on YouTube is falsely claiming that President Ferdinand Marcos and the Senate sentenced France Ruiz, employer of Elvie Vergara, to death by hanging.

Netizens recently shared a video of Taal Volcano’s eruption from 2020, according to Phivolcs.

Impostor Facebook pages advertised a fake marketing campaign app allegedly powered by Google AI.

A video showed three edited photos to falsely claim that a Chinese ship was recently destroyed by an unidentified weapon.

A YouTube video claimed that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. had ordered for Sen. Risa Hontiveros to be put in jail because of an already debunked claim that the senator pocketed funds from the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth). This is not true.

A Facebook user uploaded old clips of Israeli air strikes in Gaza and building demolitions in China to falsely claim that they are taken during the 2023 Morocco quake.

A misleading video on Facebook claims that the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos has revealed plans to lower the price of rice to P20 per kilo.

After calling on Congress to remove from the General Appropriations Act a provision requiring the Commission on Audit to publish Audit Observation Memorandum, Ombudsman Samuel Martires changed his tune two days later, saying that what he actually meant was the removal of the requirement to publish COA’s Annual Audit Reports.

A Facebook video is claiming to show footage of recent catastrophic floods in Libya. The short clip was taken in Turkey.