Archive - FACT CHECK

A Filipino Facebook user uploaded an old clip falsely claiming houses were being swept away by floods in China. The clip shows a tsunami hitting Japan in 2011. 

Two days after DepEd launched its revised K to 10 curriculum, a YouTube video falsely claimed that the K to 12 program has been scrapped. This is not true.

A video on Facebook is claiming that President Ferdinand Marcos will raise the pay of teachers and has a long-term plan for this.

A video used an altered photo to claim that the Philippine Navy had fired warning shots at Chinese vessels in Scarborough Shoal on Aug. 9.

A Facebook video is claiming that China conducted a military drill on the South China Sea in an alleged attempt to “taunt” the Philippines.

A Facebook video misled netizens into thinking that Russian warships recently entered the territories of the Philippines and Taiwan.

A video on Facebook is claiming that President Bongbong Marcos has not received any pay or allowance. This is misleading.

A Facebook page pretending to be affiliated with the DSWD posted an announcement that the agency is giving away free housing to poor Filipinos and all they have to do is register through the page.

Hindi pa nakauusad ang publiko sa nangyari sa “Love the Philippines” slogan ng Department of Tourism, sinundan agad ito ng bagong logo ng PAGCOR at ng paglulunsad ng “Bagong Pilipinas” slogan ng Malacañang.

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Manuel L. Quezon was the first president elected by a majority of Filipinos with 67.99% of the total votes cast in 1935, while Ramon Magsaysay holds the record for the president who won with the highest percentage of 68.90% which he gained in the 1935 elections.

The day before the briefing, Marcos had raised his concern over the country’s debt-to-GDP ratio before members of the United States-Association of Southeast Asian Nations Business Council.

A video claimed that President Bongbong Marcos was the first to award cash incentives to national athletes who won international competitions. This is false.

A YouTube channel falsely claimed that President Bongbong Marcos expelled Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Huang Xilian following the Aug. 5 water cannon incident in the West Philippine Sea.

A website posing as The Manila Times uploaded an article on an alleged cryptocurrency automated trading program and claimed it was being promoted by former senator Manny Pacquiao. This is a scam.

Since the Rice Tariffication Law was enacted in March 2019, local rice prices have gone up.

A recently resurfaced claim of entertainment columnist Cristy Fermin saying President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. did not promise to lower the price of rice to P20 per kilo during his presidential campaign lacks context.

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. did not declare martial law after a Chinese vessel fired water cannons at Philippine Coast Guard supply boats near Ayungin Shoal on Aug. 5. 

As the Philippines experienced the effects of the southwest monsoon and back-to-back typhoons, a Facebook Reel showing people running away from a landslide resurfaced and gained traction.

“The council and flood tax were clearly not proposals emanating from either head of the conjugal dictatorship,” according to the Marcos Regime Research Group of the UP Third World Studies Center.

Almost three weeks after the acceptance of the resignations of the 18 high-ranking officers was announced, the PNP has yet to issue a categorical statement clarifying whether they were merely removed from their positions or dismissed from the police service.

Two Facebook posts falsely insinuated that high school and college graduates can apply at the Bureau of Internal Revenue and earn as much as P90,078. 

A U.S. fighter jet did not fly by a Chinese vessel that fired a water cannon at two Philippine Coast Guard vessels in the West Philippine Sea.

A Facebook page uploaded a Reel supposedly of a vessel wrecked by the Chinese government, an incident allegedly concealed by the media. These claims are false.