Archive - FACT CHECK

While recalling his experience in dealing with disasters as former Davao City mayor, President Rodrigo Duterte mistakenly claimed that Davao City is the “biggest” city in the world.

Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. erroneously claimed that the respondents in the latest Pulse Asia survey who said they “approve” of President Rodrigo Duterte did so “to the max” with “no exceptions.”

No such pronouncement has come from either the president or Malacañang.

The circulating photos actually show victims of Tropical Storm Wipha in Vietnam, which ravaged the country’s northern provinces in August last year.

Several social media users, including former ABS-CBN broadcaster Jay Sonza, shared on Facebook (FB) an altered photo of an ABS-CBN News van, falsely claiming it overturned as Typhoon Ulysses raged over Luzon on Nov. 12.

All four clips featured in the 46-second video show different instances of flooding in Laos and Thailand.

No LPAs or storms have been observed forming near the country or in the PAR, at least for the next few days, according to latest forecasts.

The Duterte administration sent mixed signals on coming up with an “arrangement” on defense matters with the United States (U.S.) when it recently suspended for another six months the abrogation of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA).

The circulating images are nearly nine years old and show the aftermath of a different typhoon.

Self-proclaimed political operator and strategist Franco Mabanta, a supporter of President Rodrigo Duterte and defeated vice presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., wrongly said that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the first pandemic “in a century.”

Only one image actually shows Rolly’s aftermath. The rest show the damage from two powerful storms from past years.

In a press briefing on Nov. 5, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque contradicted President Rodrigo Duterte’s stance on the legalization of same-sex marriage for Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) couples.

As the country prepares for late-stage clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccines to start in December, President Rodrigo Duterte named Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito Galvez Jr. as vaccine czar.

In his Oct. 26 public address, President Rodrigo Duterte promised to dedicate the remaining one and a half years of his term to “fighting corruption” in government.

The "leaked email" that was the source of the information is fabricated. The UK.-based vlogger also made erroneous claims about vaccines and vaccination practices in the U.K.

The false claim has circulated online since May, and has been debunked by fact-checkers in South America, Europe and Asia.

They were captured by Reuters photographer Erik de Castro on Nov. 10, 2013.

PCSO has made no announcements of such giveaways in its official website and FB page.