Archive - FACT CHECK

VERA Files annotates what Abella says about the surveys with what the surveys actually say, to show which parts are precise and which not so.

In her bid to promote ecotourism as the alternative to mining, Environment Secretary Gina Lopez cites as a success story Ugong Rock Adventures.

On four occasions the past week, President Rodrigo Duterte said he will file a claim on Benham Rise and he will rename it “Philippine Ridge.”

Can the Philippines sell its islands to China?

Militant group Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap (Kadamay), a group fighting for free housing for the poor, says Metro Manila has the most number of people without homes in the world.

President Rodrigo Duterte made a fuss about the relatively low pay he has been receiving as president of the country.

Defending House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez from possible disbarment due to infidelity, President Rodrigo Duterte said non-Christians such as atheists are exempted from the “rules of the number of women (one) can have.”

Photos of President Rodrigo Duterte showing a blue contraption beside his bed in his residence in Davao City surfaced online on his birthday on May 28.

President Rodrigo Duterte said Davao City is ‘relatively safe’. Is it?

Is the president correct in saying that Davao City's growth is “unprecedented”?

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The president says there are EU countries with death penalty. Is that so?

​President Rodrigo Duterte earlier this month said he cannot approve of same-sex marriage because the law allows marriage only between a man and a woman.

Join us at the UP College of Mass Communication Auditorium this Wednesday, March 29, 10 a.m. to noon, as the Department of Journalism and Vera Files hold "Alternative Facts: IS THAT SO?", a forum to mark the First International Fact-Checking Day.

Have these lawmakers stuck to or changed their stand on the death penalty since 2006?

First, it was 7,000. Now, the disputed body count in the war on drugs has been raised further to 8,000 by no less than Vice President Leni Robredo’s legal adviser, former Akbayan Representative Ibarra Gutierrez.

President Rodrigo Duterte invoked presidential immunity when he threatened to kill criminals and drug addicts during his Aug. 5 speech before troops in Capiz.

​President Rodrigo Duterte said he is willing to enter into a compromise deal with cigarette maker Mighty Corp., which is being accused of tax evasion.