Archive - Claims by Public Figures

In the social media landscape this year, disinformation peddlers sketched an image of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. as a decisive leader who fired errant officials and as a figure sought by foreign leaders for his wealth.

From clickbait headlines of videos to patently false claims, the allegations that he fired several errant government officials, withdrew wealth from foreign countries or that the Maharlika Fund will collate national wealth and pay the country’s debts all seemed to prop up President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s image.

Misleading claims of former president Rodrigo Duterte on the jurisdiction of the ICC continued to haunt the disinformation landscape in 2023 even as the current administration now considers cooperating in the tribunal’s ongoing probe into the bloody drug war.

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This makes Marcos one of the many public figures who have made misleading claims in asserting the Philippines’ “non-cooperation” to the ICC’s probe of the Duterte administration’s drug war.

Former president Rodrigo Duterte has claimed that the NTF-ELCAC was a “very successful” initiative of the AFP in reducing the number of communist insurgents. This needs context.

Reacting to recent discussions in the House of Representatives about cooperating with the ICC in its investigation of the previous administration’s war on drugs, Vice President Sara Duterte echoed claims on the ICC jurisdiction that lack context.

From saying in August 2022 that the Philippines “has no intention” of rejoining the ICC, Marcos now says the Philippines’ return to the Netherlands-based tribunal is “under study.”

The Marcos family did not go into exile empty-handed. In 1986, the U.S. Customs Services seized sets of jewelry, valued in 1991 at $436,420 to $559,630, that the Marcoses brought with them to Honolulu.

Bagama’t walang opisyal na testimonya si Rodrigo Duterte sa korte, nagbitiw siya ng mga pahayag na inaakusahan si Leila De Lima na sangkot sa illegal drug trading noong kalihim siya ng Department of Justice.

Naunang ipinahayag ni Sara Duterte na "kalaban ng bayan" ang sinumang kumokontra sa confidential funds.

Toward the end of his six-year presidency, Rodrigo Duterte said “nobody can stop corruption.” No longer in power, he now says “it is easy” to control this menace.

Humarap sa media si AFP Chief of Staff Romeo Brawner Jr. para linawin ang nauna niyang pahayag na may destabilization efforts laban sa administrasyong Marcos. Nangangailangan ito ng konteksto.

Duterte asked the senators that the amount for confidential funds be reallocated instead to the DepEd’s National Learning Recovery Program.

Ano nga ba ang batayan sa pagdedeklara ng mga holiday sa bansa?

The Comelec did not make a definitive pronouncement on filing criminal charges against teachers who quit their electoral board duties.

While Raffy Alunan declared support for Rodrigo Duterte’s presidential bid in the 2016 elections, he later pointed out the former administration's failure to address certain governance issues.

What happened to the corruption allegations in LTFRB?

Bagama't nangako si Pangulong Ferdinand Marcos Jr. na ang kampanya laban sa droga ng kanyang administrasyon ay magkakaroon ng "bagong mukha,” na nakasentro sa rehabilitasyon at pagtugon sa pagkagumon sa droga, ito ay madugo rin.

Ang paliwanag ni Bato Dela Rosa sa pahayag ni Rodrigo Duterte ay sumasalungat sa mga nakaraang pahayag ng dating pangulo.

Sasang-ayon kaya ang mga senador sa desisyon ng House at kung saan ilalagay ang mga natapyas na confidential funds?

The Dahas Project of the UP Third World Studies Center recorded 438 drug-related killings from June 30, 2022 to Oct. 15, 2023.

Alamin mula sa mga mangingisda sa Zambales kung ano nga ba ang sitwasyon sa West Philippine Sea, dito sa VERA Files Fact Check.

Sen. “Bato” Dela Rosa belied allegations that former president Rodrigo Duterte was threatening ACT Party-list Rep. France Castro, whom Duterte baselessly accused as a “communist” in Congress that “he wanted to kill.”

While Marcos has vowed that his administration’s anti-drug campaign will have a “new face,” centered on rehabilitation and addressing drug dependence, it is not bloodless.

Ngayong wala na sa poder si dating pangulong Rodrigo Duterte, may naisip siyang solusyon sa lumalalang hidwaan ng Pilipinas at China sa West Philippine Sea.

The Marcos administration has removed the anniversary of the 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution from the list of holidays for 2024 “because [it] falls on a Sunday."

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said the concept of the Maharlika Investment Fund “remains a good one” and it will be operational by the end of 2023.

Asked during a briefing if the cap has failed to bring down rice prices given the high inflation rate, PSA Undersecretary Dennis Mapa said, “This is a research question that researchers would study based on the data that we are collecting.”

Joint Circular 2015-01 prescribes specific activities where confidential funds can and cannot be used. It does not give LGUs discretion to spend confidential funds the way they want to.