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: Netizens MISLEAD with old story on Duterte signing oil deal with Israeli firm The agreement was signed in 2018. By VERA Files | Feb 20, 2020 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Netizens resurface MISLEADING stories; fees for gov’t documents waived only for first-time job seekers It's only for first time job seekers. By VERA Files | Feb 19, 2020 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT SHEET: 3 things you need to know about the Senate voting process Two Philippine senators disagreed on the adoption of the Senate resolution asking President Rodrigo Duterte to rethink the scrapping of VFA with the US. By VERA Files | Feb 18, 2020 | 4-minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: FB posts claiming 2019-nCoV only survives in ‘cold weather,’ salabat a cure NOT TRUE This post is false. Don't believe it. By VERA Files | Feb 18, 2020 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Palace negates AFP chief, says PH ‘not open’ to new military agreements Presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo contradicted newly appointed AFP Chief Felimon Santos Jr. on the push for the approval of VFAs with other countries. By VERA Files | Feb 17, 2020 | 2-minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte DID NOT open PGH for Wuhan COVID-19 patients This story is fake. Don't believe it. By VERA Files | Feb 16, 2020 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Report claiming China to kill ‘20k’ COVID-19 patients FAKE This story is fake. Don't believe it. By VERA Files | Feb 16, 2020 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marikina DOES NOT have ‘2 nCoV patients’ It's a trick link. By VERA Files | Feb 14, 2020 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Story on DOH monitoring people who came in contact with Cebu child ‘with nCoV’ MISLEADING It lifted content from CNN Philippines and changed the headline. By VERA Files | Feb 14, 2020 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duque’s statement that ‘moist throat’ can prevent COVID-19 contradicts WHO advisory Drinking water does not prevent coronavirus infection, the World Health Organization said. By VERA Files | Feb 13, 2020 | 4-minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: SolGen’s claim that ABS-CBN ‘violated’ foreign ownership restriction needs context The Office of Solicitor General's assertion that ABS-CBN breached the constitutional prohibition on foreign ownership by issuing PDRs to foreigners needs context. By VERA Files | Feb 12, 2020 | 3-minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Story claiming nightly gadget use can cause eye cancer MISLEADING This story is inaccurate. By VERA Files | Feb 12, 2020 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: FB posts saying novel coronavirus is from bats bear FALSE HEADLINE The animal source of the 2019-nCoV has not yet been identified. By VERA Files | Feb 12, 2020 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Reports claiming Kobe Bryant’s wife Vanessa took her life NOT TRUE Vanessa Bryant is not dead. Neither has the BBC published any such report about her. By VERA Files | Feb 11, 2020 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Novel coronavirus: Six things you need to know What exactly is the new coronavirus? By VERA Files | Feb 10, 2020 | 6-minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte repeats wrong claim PH has ‘no oil’ The Philippines has been producing commercial oil as early as 1979. By VERA FILES | Feb 9, 2020 | 3-minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: In defending Duterte’s decision to scrap the VFA, ex-Palace spox Harry Roque makes two false claims Roque wrongly claimed that the country does not benefit at all from its VFA with the US, and that Filipino soldiers are fighting the world's "longest-running insurgency." By VERA Files | Feb 7, 2020 | 3-minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT SHEET: The Visiting Forces Agreement, explained The VFA is a bilateral agreement between the Philippines and the US that outlines the terms and conditions on the entry and visit of US armed forces in the country. By VERA Files | Feb 6, 2020 | 5-minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Quiboloy DID NOT say he ‘can’t stop’ novel coronavirus because he ‘can’t speak Chinese’ The televangelist has said no such thing. By VERA Files | Feb 4, 2020 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Photo of ‘1,000’ Japanese medical volunteers heading to Wuhan NOT TRUE It's over 11 years old. By VERA Files | Feb 4, 2020 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Video of bats, snakes, other animals sold at ‘Wuhan’ wet market NOT TRUE; it’s in Indonesia It's two different clips, both showing Indonesian markets. By VERA Files | Feb 3, 2020 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Story on Jack Ma giving US5M to ‘Pinoy student’ who invented ‘coronavirus vaccine’ NOT TRUE This post is false. Don't believe it. By VERA Files | Feb 3, 2020 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Report claiming US80M bounty offer by ‘Iran’ for Trump’s head NOT TRUE This post is false. Don't believe it. By VERA Files | Jan 31, 2020 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: FB posts about ‘suicide bomber’ at MRT NOT TRUE It was a drill. By VERA Files | Jan 31, 2020 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Quiboloy ‘quote’ on his church’s ‘exemption’ from novel coronavirus a HOAX He said no such thing. By VERA Files | Jan 31, 2020 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Viral video of girl on hospital bed NOT Kobe Bryant’s daughter Gianna The video was from 2019. By VERA Files | Jan 31, 2020 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Manila Vice Mayor Lacuna demos wrong way to wear surgical masks, calls it the ‘proper’ way The WHO, Philippine Red Cross and DOH said there is only one way to wear surgical masks. By VERA Files | Jan 31, 2020 | 4-minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte falsely claims there are still U.S. military bases in PH President Duterte threatened to terminate the VFA with the US after former police chief Sen. Bato Dela Rosa confirmed that his US visa had been cancelled. By VERA FILES | Jan 30, 2020 | 2-minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Pimentel’s claim that Duterte may unilaterally cancel VFA needs context The Supreme Court has not decided on the question of whether the president can unilaterally terminate a treaty or an agreement with other countries. By VERA Files | Jan 29, 2020 | 2-minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Viral ‘footage’ of Kobe Bryant’s helicopter crash NOT TRUE, it’s actually in UAE in 2018 The video has nothing to do with the late Los Angeles Lakers shooting guard. 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