Archive - FACT CHECK Year all all 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 Items per page 30 12 18 24 30 FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Census data refutes Panelo claim that ‘overwhelming majority’ of Pinoys are unschooled The overwhelming majority have varying degrees of educational attainment. By VERA Files | Jan 23, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK THIS WEEK IN FAKE NEWS: Sara Duterte did NOT call Rappler, Liberal Party ‘idiots’ This fake report trended on social media this week. Don’t believe it. By VERA Files | Jan 19, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Trump did NOT call Aquino, Trillanes sh*tholes Telegraph is hosted on “telegraph-tv.com,” which appears to mimic British broadsheet The Telegraph, whose website is “telegraph.co.uk.” By VERA Files | Jan 19, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Faced with abolition, Road Board says it’s now under the Office of the President; Malacañang denies the claim “The Office of the President has not promulgated an issuance placing the Road Board under its control" By VERA Files | Jan 18, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Advocate flubs poverty data during anti-poverty book launch Bicol is not the country’s poorest region. Caramoan Island is not a third class municipality. By VERA Files | Jan 16, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT SHEET: SEC revocation of Rappler’s registration explained The SEC decision repeatedly mentions PDRs. What are those? By VERA Files | Jan 15, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK THIS WEEK IN FAKE NEWS: Poll fraud NOT YET proven in Marcos vs. Robredo protest This fake report trended on social media this week. Don’t believe it. By VERA FILES | Jan 12, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Timeline of anti-graft bodies through the years Different commissions under different administrations have been set up to investigate corruption. By VERA FILES | Jan 11, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Anti-graft body not in operation five months since Duterte’s urgent vow “It’s been established but it hasn’t been constituted." By VERA FILES | Jan 11, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte gets agriculture budget wrong; undersecretary agrees The DA got the ninth largest share in the 2017 and 2018 budget. By VERA FILES | Jan 8, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK THIS WEEK IN FAKE NEWS: Duterte DID NOT release Revilla from jail This fake report trended on social media this week. Don’t believe it. By VERA FILES | Jan 5, 2018 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES YEARENDER: In his own words: Telling the truth, Duterte-style The president has failed to follow his own advice, making false claims, flip-flops and misleading statements all year round. By VERA FILES | Dec 29, 2017 | 1-minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK THIS WEEK IN FAKE NEWS: Revilla DID NOT do a tell-all on ex-President Aquino This fake report trended on social media this week. Don’t believe it. By VERA FILES | Dec 29, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES YEARENDER: And 2017’s False Claim of the Year is… More than a third of the voters chose the president’s conflicting claims on his wealth. By VERA FILES | Dec 28, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: How old is Isabelle Duterte? She’s 17, per her father’s SALNs since 2007 Google's featured snippets are not always reliable. By VERA Files | Dec 28, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK THIS WEEK IN FAKE NEWS: Duterte NOT declared as world’s best president This fake report trended on social media this week. Don’t believe it. By VERA FILES | Dec 22, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES YEARENDER: Who benefited most from fake news, and other questions, answered in three charts Patterns emerged from our 16 weeks of fake news coverage to date. By VERA FILES | Dec 22, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES YEARENDER: Explaining the president, the 2017 edition Watch this video to see how else both made sense of the president’s controversial pronouncements. By VERA FILES | Dec 21, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Roque underplays Duterte flip-flop on same-sex marriage Roque described Duterte’s recent flip-flop on same-sex marriage as "somewhat new." It's not. By VERA FILES | Dec 20, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES YEARENDER: The most repeated false claims of 2017 One of the laws of propaganda goes, “A lie told often enough becomes true.” By VERA FILES | Dec 20, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK THIS WEEK IN FAKE NEWS: VP poll recount NOT YET decided This fake report trended on social media this week. Don’t believe it. By VERA Files | Dec 15, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte flip-flops on asking for emergency powers President Rodrigo Duterte in a speech December 7 in Clark, Pampanga claimed he never asked for emergency powers. In his first SONA, he did. By VERA Files | Dec 13, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte’s grim portrait of war on drugs is not supported by gov’t data Government figures tell a different story. By VERA FILES | Dec 12, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT SHEET: A brief history of impeachment in the Philippines Here’s a five-minute video summing up 68 years of impeachment history in the Philippines. By VERA FILES | Dec 11, 2017 | 1-minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: PTV, PNA mislead audience on ADB report Neither the PTV nor the PNA report accurately reflects the evaluation of the ADB report. By VERA FILES | Dec 9, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK THIS WEEK IN FAKE NEWS: Russian President Putin DID NOT send Duterte military aid to crush NPA This fake report trended on social media this week. Don’t believe it. By VERA FILES | Dec 8, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Vote for the 2017 False Claim of the Year What do you think was 2017’s false claim of the year? Let us know by taking this survey. By VERA Files | Dec 7, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte cherry-picks evidence to support claim that cannabis increases lung cancer risk The president ignored the bulk of scientific evidence with contrary findings. By VERA Files | Dec 5, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Did Duterte flip-flop on ‘coalition government’ with CPP, as Sison claims? Sison got the flip-flop right, but the instance wrong. By VERA FILES | Dec 4, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK THIS WEEK IN FAKE NEWS: Jackie Chan DID NOT make a film about Duterte This fake report trended on social media this week. Don’t believe it. By VERA Files | Dec 1, 2017 | -minute read KEEP READING Posts pagination Newer posts 1 … 108 109 110 111 112 … 117 Older posts
