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 30 12 18 24 30 FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Housing raffle by ‘NHA’ website FAKE A dubious months-old online post "raffling off" housing units for free, published by a spurious National Housing Authority website (nha-gov-ph.ml), is currently making rounds on social media. By VERA Files | Jul 24, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Website recycles FAKE NEWS about Hontiveros receiving millions from drug lord monthly Website newsinsiderph.info published July 22 a story that revives a fake claim about Sen. Risa Hontiveros receiving millions monthly from a drug lord. By VERA Files | Jul 24, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK Rodrigo Duterte’s SONA Files How did the president fare in his promises? By VERA Files | Jul 23, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK SONA PROMISE TRACKER: Armed Forces SONA 2017 promises on the armed forces By Lucille Sodipe | Jul 23, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK SONA 2017 PROMISE TRACKER: Drugs and crime SONA 2017 promises on drugs and crime By Jake Soriano | Jul 20, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK SONA 2017 PROMISE TRACKER: Corruption and governance SONA 2017 promises on corruption and governance By Merinette Retona | Jul 20, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK SONA 2017 PROMISE TRACKER: Social services SONA 2017 promises on social services By Lucille Sodipe | Jul 20, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK THIS WEEK IN FAKE NEWS: Naga City NOT DECLARED by PDEA as shabu capital This fake report trended on social media this week. Don’t believe it. By VERA FILES | Jul 20, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK SONA 2017 Promise Tracker: Infrastructure SONA 2017 promises on infrastructure By Celine Isabelle Samson | Jul 20, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK SONA 2017 PROMISE TRACKER: Peace agenda SONA 2017 promises on the peace agenda By Daniel Abunales | Jul 20, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK SONA 2017 PROMISE TRACKER: Environment SONA 2017 promises on the environment By Maria Feona Imperial | Jul 19, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK SONA 2017 PROMISE TRACKER: Economy SONA 2017 promises on the economy By Jake Soriano | Jul 19, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Noynoy Aquino ‘arrested’ for graft FAKE NEWS This story is fake. Don't believe it. By VERA FILES | Jul 19, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK Issues in the draft Constitution of Duterte’s Con-Com VERA Files compiles notable issues in the draft submitted to the president. By VERA FILES | Jul 18, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: In latest draft charter, transition president and vice president to be elected The draft federal charter submitted to President Rodrigo Duterte July 9 automatically makes him chair of the transitory government. By VERA FILES | Jul 17, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Draft federal charter doubles number of constitutional commissions Here are the powers and functions of the six commissions. By VERA FILES | Jul 17, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Poe DID NOT say Duterte ‘impresses’ her Website pinoyhopes.info published July 15 a false report with a headline that has Sen. Grace Poe admitting she is now "impressed" with President Rodrigo Duterte. By VERA Files | Jul 17, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Website carries MISLEADING photo in Halili assassination story A July 5 story by website Sulong Pilipinas currently making rounds on social media that claims to show CCTV footage of the killer of Tanauan City, Batangas mayor Antonio Halili escaping is misleading. By VERA FILES | Jul 17, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: LP DID NOT get youth ‘drunk’ to join rally A July 14 report by website philupdates.top saying the Liberal Party got some young people intoxicated to make them participate in a rally is fake. By VERA Files | Jul 16, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Pro-Duterte vlogger makes MISLEADING claim about CHR expenses in online post Website Federalism PH (jazznews.top) carried in its July 9 report a vlog of Duterte supporter Niño Barzaga making a misleading claim in relation to the CHR's reported P5.4 million spending on hotel seminars. By VERA Files | Jul 14, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK THIS WEEK IN FAKE NEWS: Story on Catholic group criticizing Fr. Robert Reyes MISLEADING This fake report trended on social media this week. Don’t believe it. By VERA FILES | Jul 13, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Online post connecting LP to Halili killing MISLEADING A story published July 4 by website updatedtayo.info that links the Liberal Party to the July 2 killing of Tanauan City, Batangas mayor Antonio Halili is misleading. By VERA Files | Jul 13, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Lawless violence grounds for martial law in draft charter Aside from invasion and rebellion, the president may declare martial law citing lawless violence in the draft revised 1987 Constitution. By VERA Files | Jul 12, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Bato Dela Rosa ‘murder’ at BuCor a HOAX Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) chief Ronald "Bato" Dela Rosa is a victim of another hoax by fake news websites, this time alleging he had been gunned down in front of the institution he heads. By VERA Files | Jul 12, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Draft charter defines, bans political dynasties Members of a family who maintain or are “capable of maintaining political control” in a national, regional or local position are barred from running simultaneously or in succeeding elections. By VERA Files | Jul 11, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Impeachment and the judiciary in the ‘Federal Republic of the Philippines’ In this third installment, VERA Files highlights the structure of an expanded Judicial Department and notes the new process of impeachment found in the Article on Accountability of Public Officers. By VERA Files | Jul 10, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Enrile DID NOT ‘slap’ Sotto for proposing De Lima ‘release’ This story is fake. Don't believe it. By VERA FILES | Jul 10, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT SHEET: The 1987 Constitution and Concom draft compared How different is the draft Constitution submitted Monday to Malacanang from the 1987 Constitution? By VERA FILES | Jul 10, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT SHEET: How the Consultative Committee pictures a ‘Federal Republic of the Philippines’ Based on this draft, VERA Files is publishing a series of fact sheets highlighting notable items that were changed, added or deleted in the 1987 Constitution. By VERA FILES | Jul 9, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: RMN posts FAKE report, uses SATIRE as real news This story is fake. Don't believe it. By VERA FILES | Jul 7, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING Posts pagination Newer posts 1 … 101 102 103 104 105 … 116 Older posts