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When President Rodrigo Duterte speaks, his men scramble to clarify — or they try. Sometimes, their explanation supports the president’s statements; often, it contradicts.

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President Rodrigo Duterte misinforms the public anew in saying that the Juvenile Justice Welfare Act allows 15-year-olds to go “scot-free” no matter the crime.

The write-up misleadingly equates the effect of eating three pieces of hot dogs to smoking a pack of cigarettes when it comes to acquiring cancer.

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No records show the ex-president making such a statement.

A fabricated tweet by journalist Raissa Robles saying the country’s gold medal haul in the 30th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games looks “cooked” or “rigged” is making the rounds on the Web.

No such model has been released, or even announced, by Samsung.

Here are three things you need to know about the ICC’s 2019 report.

There was no mention of the religious group in the report.

It's five years old.

Contrary to Dela Rosa’s statement, Canada -- not the Philippines -- has the longest coastline in the world, as cited in a report by the UN Environment Programme.

The report was published in 2017.

It was a project of Butuan City's former mayor.

The video’s headline and thumbnail do not reflect its content.

The girl in the video ran away from home and was not abducted.

From calling it “the right step,” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo now calls Vice President Leni Robredo’s meeting with officials from the United States (US) and United Nations (UN) as “missteps” that led to her ouster as co-chair of the government’s anti-illegal drug efforts.

Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo contradicted President Rodrigo Duterte’s prior pronouncement that Vice President Maria Leonor “Leni” Robredo was on a “need to know” basis when she was Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs (ICAD) co-chair.