Archive - FACT CHECK Year all all 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 Items per page 12 12 18 24 30 FACT CHECK THIS WEEK IN FAKE NEWS: Vilma Santos-Recto DID NOT vote to slash the CHR budget; Lagman DID NOT say he’d file an impeachment complaint against Duterte and Henry Sy’s daughter DID NOT trash Duterte’s critics. These fake reports trended on social media this week. Don’t believe them. By VERA FILES | Sep 15, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: DFA press release distorts facts about Philippine human rights report Only eight countries expressed qualified support for PH war on drugs. By VERA FILES | Sep 15, 2017 | 7-minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: DDB Chair Santiago repeats Duterte public bidding flub Santiago repeated the same mistake about government procurement. By VERA FILES | Sep 13, 2017 | 3-minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte gets Bangsamoro peace process wrong Peace “talks” between the government and both the MILF and the MNLF have already been concluded. By VERA Files | Sep 12, 2017 | 4-minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT SHEET: The Commission on Human Rights, explained President Rodrigo Duterte, in a media interview following his 2017 SONA, said he wants the CHR abolished. By VERA Files | Sep 12, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK THIS WEEK IN FAKE NEWS: Lascanas did NOT say he regrets trusting Trillanes, airstrike video NOT clear if Hapilon is dead These fake reports trended on social media this week. Don’t believe them. By VERA FILES | Sep 8, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte and Imelda tell contradicting stories about Marcos gold The Marcos gold – ill-gotten after all? By VERA Files | Sep 7, 2017 | 5-minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Interview clip confirms Acosta said there’s a ‘pattern’ in spate of killings PAO Chief Acosta inaccurately claimed she never said what she had actually said just two days prior. By VERA Files | Sep 7, 2017 | 5-minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: In his own words: Duterte’s drug war, so far Candidate Duterte is different from President Duterte. By VERA Files | Sep 7, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: PNP Chief Dela Rosa understates war on drugs figures Dela Rosa’s figures do not match the ostensibly “real numbers” on the war on drugs published by the PNP itself, in its own website. By VERA Files | Sep 5, 2017 | 2-minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Did Duterte sign a new law that criminalizes fake news? Philippine Star wrongly reported there's a new law criminalizing fake news. By VERA FILES | Sep 2, 2017 | 4-minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte not the only president to attack Inquirer, ABS-CBN Former presidents Estrada and Aquino have also attacked both media outfits. By VERA Files | Sep 2, 2017 | 6-minute read KEEP READING Posts pagination Newer posts 1 … 275 276 277 278 279 … 289 Older posts