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A YouTube video is claiming that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. had shut down the International Criminal Court (ICC). This is not true.

A video on YouTube is erroneously claiming that China has declared war on the Philippines. This is not true.

Graphics circulating on Facebook claim that the DSWD is giving away P7,000 financial assistance this month. These are fake.

Sa dami ng mga kahina-hinalang video tungkol sa mga sakuna ngayon, mahirap na ring masuri kung ano nga ba ang totoo sa hindi. Panoorin ang video ng VERA Files Fact Check sa paggamit ng reverse image search.

Ngayong taon, 46 sa 410 na online claims na dinebunk ng VERA Files Fact Check mula Enero hanggang Disyembre ay may kinalaman sa mga natural at man-made disaster.

A message warning residents in Mindanao about a supposed war in the next Ramadan is circulating online. This is a false report that has been shared online since 2017.

Paano nga ba nabibiktima ng mga fake ad ang mga ordinaryong Pinoy? Ano ang masasabi ng mga personalidad na ginagamit sa mga mapanlinlang na post? Ano nga ba ang mga ginagawang hakbang ng gobyerno para malutas ito?

Halos doble ang bilang ng mga online scam na na-fact-check ngayong taon ng VERA Files kumpara noong nakaraang taon. Mula Jan. 1 hanggang Dec. 8, 2023, nakapag-fact-check ang VERA Files ng 78 scam posts na maaaring nakapambiktima ng maraming Pilipino.

There are no reports about a U.S. Coast Guard ship firing warning shots against a Chinese Navy ship in the South China Sea.

A YouTube video falsely claimed that a court had ordered the release from detention of SMNI anchors Jeffrey Celiz and Lorraine Badoy.

Issues involving the West Philippine Sea, the South China Sea and China were among the topics most frequently debunked by VERA Files in 2023, accounting for almost a sixth (71) of 410 fact-check articles published from Jan. 1 to Dec. 8.

Sa isyu ng disinformation sa agrikultura, nakapag-monitor ang VERA Files Fact Check ng 15 pahayag ng mga opisyal ng gobyerno at online posts. Labintatlo rito ay tungkol sa bigas at siyam ang direktang tumutukoy sa pagpapababa ng presyo nito.

Political doublespeak: omission, diversion and confusion, characterized President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s first full year in office. More than half of his claims in 2023 lacked context, were flip-flops, or misleading.

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In the social media landscape this year, disinformation peddlers sketched an image of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. as a decisive leader who fired errant officials and as a figure sought by foreign leaders for his wealth.

From clickbait headlines of videos to patently false claims, the allegations that he fired several errant government officials, withdrew wealth from foreign countries or that the Maharlika Fund will collate national wealth and pay the country’s debts all seemed to prop up President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s image.

Misleading claims of former president Rodrigo Duterte on the jurisdiction of the ICC continued to haunt the disinformation landscape in 2023 even as the current administration now considers cooperating in the tribunal’s ongoing probe into the bloody drug war.

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A video on Facebook is erroneously claiming that a clip of divers experiencing an earthquake under the sea was taken in the Philippines. This is not true.

Netizens reshared a false chain message warning people against going to SM Mall of Asia.

The South Korean government is only set to give a small warship called a corvette, not a submarine, to the Philippines.

Two premature babies, not 39, died in Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital on Nov. 11, 2023.

Videos circulating on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok are claiming that a solar superstorm would cause a global internet outage for months. This is baseless.

BARMM Interior Minister Naguib Sinarimbo did not say Christians have no place in Marawi.

A YouTube video is falsely claiming that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has appointed SAGIP Party-list Rep. Rodante Marcoleta as House speaker to replace Martin Romualdez.

A Facebook page uploaded a 10-year-old clip of a storm surge falsely passing it off as a tsunami after the magnitude 7.4 quake that recently jolted parts of Mindanao.

A video on Facebook is claiming to show combat footage recently taken during the Israel-Hamas war. This is not true, the video is not recent.

A YouTube video is claiming that the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) had fired water cannons in the West Philippine Sea supposedly at a Chinese vessel. This is misleading.

A YouTube video bore a clickbait headline and thumbnail claiming that House Speaker Martin Romualdez has been suspended from the House of Representatives. This is not true.

This makes Marcos one of the many public figures who have made misleading claims in asserting the Philippines’ “non-cooperation” to the ICC’s probe of the Duterte administration’s drug war.