Archive - Online Posts

With new college graduates entering the workforce, several FB posts offering assistance in acquiring a TIN card for a fee are also popping up. These are scams.

Netizens are still interacting with a two-month-old hoax made to look like cardiologist Willie Ong is promoting a spray to reduce varicose veins.

Three Facebook videos claim that nuns from a monastery in Pasig are making and selling an anti-aging cream. These are fake.

A Filipina vlogger is falsely claiming that the WHO admitted in its website that COVID-19 vaccines can cause multiple sclerosis.

A Facebook Reel allegedly shows security footage of a man whose pants caught fire, after he farted causing his phone to blow up. The video was edited.

Facebook posts claiming that the office of Sen. Robin Padilla is accepting applications for a P3,000 financial aid from the DSWD are fake. 

A Facebook video claimed that 80-year-old Filipino citizens can now claim their P100,000 centenary allowance. Not true. 

Several netizens posted status updates claiming that Filipinos can now apply as domestic helpers in South Korea directly through the POEA. These are false. 

A viral reel on Facebook is purportedly showing another apparition of Jesus Christ emerging in the sky. Again, this is fake.

Over 20 Facebook posts falsely claimed that actor Jaime Fabregas has died. The hoaxes carried links that redirect to an e-commerce site.

Yet another 2018 video of Mayon Volcano, this time spouting lava and an ash plume, is circulating among netizens with the claim it is recent. Not true.

A Facebook page uploaded a five-year-old video of Mayon Volcano spraying fountains of lava, and claimed this shows a recent event. This is wrong. 

Netizens shared a fake 'SMNI' quote card where Ilocos Norte Rep. Sandro Marcos allegedly rebuked critics of the Maharlika Investment Fund.

A Facebook video's claim that the government is now providing a monthly cash assistance amounting to P3,000 to indigent families needs context. This assistance will be in the form of food credits, not cash, and has not been rolled out yet.

A YouTube video uploaded to Facebook falsely claimed that the United States military is reviving its former naval base at Subic Bay in Zambales.

Making the rounds on Facebook this week is another video falsely linked to the killing of overseas Filipino worker Jullebee Ranara. The short clip features a young Saudi Arabian returning from war.

Netizens, including Filipinos, are sharing a Facebook post falsely claiming that a 101-year-old woman gave birth to a child, supposedly her 17th.

A video using old news reports is insinuating an escalating conflict between Japan and China.

Two videos claimed that the Philippines acquired 35 millimeter (mm) Oerlikon GDF anti-aircraft guns, and that these were fired during a military exercise. This is not true.

Bogus sites promising netizens cash prizes have resurfaced, this time claiming that the Mercury Drug Corporation is giving away a “medical subsidy” worth P7,000. This is a scam and the company has disowned the circulating links.

A YouTube video claimed that Japan is currently transferring weapons to the Philippines, causing alarm in China. This is not true.

A short video on Facebook (FB) is misleading netizens, claiming that certain “fake cabbages” are being sold in the country. The clip was taken from an old video showing several wax displays in Japan and were not being marketed as food.

A YouTube channel and a Facebook page uploaded a video of a drone firing missiles and claimed it was manufactured in the Philippines. This is not true. A company based in the United Kingdom designed the aerial vehicle in the video.

A YouTube video’s headline and thumbnail erroneously claim that President Ferdinand Marcos ordered the appointment of his predecessor Rodrigo Duterte as his administration’s anti-drug czar. Not true.

A YouTube channel posted a video of a submarine in a shipyard and claimed it was Philippine-made. This is false. Shown in the clip is a naval vessel built by an American shipbuilding company.

A video claimed that Sen. Risa Hontiveros called President Bongbong Marcos lutang (spaced out). This is misleading. The senator used the term to describe the hasty passage of the Maharlika Fund bill, and was not referring to the president.

Five Facebook posts by netizens falsely claimed that the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is giving away P10,000.

A Facebook Reel is showing two clips purportedly featuring the havoc wrought by supertyphoon Mawar in Guam.

An Instagram reel is claiming that the minimum wage in Metro Manila has been raised to P720, from P570. This needs context.

A netizen falsely passed off old clips of structures crumbling down and being swept away by flood as taken during Super Typhoon Mawar’s onslaught.