Archive - Online Posts Year all all 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 Items per page 24 12 18 24 30 Online Posts FACT CHECK: “Running only for money” video of Richard Gomez AI-manipulated The video of Leyte Rep. Richard Gomez (4th Dist.) supposedly saying he is running again for a congressional seat just to get rich was manipulated through AI. By VERA Files | May 10, 2025 | 2-minute read KEEP READING Online Posts FACT CHECK: Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost is new pope, NOT Tagle A Facebook video falsely claims Cardinal Luis Tagle was chosen as the new pope. Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost, is the next Bishop of Rome. By VERA Files | May 9, 2025 | 2-minute read KEEP READING Online Posts FACT CHECK: Leftist party-lists vying for congress seats NOT linked to NPA A Facebook page falsely claimed that leftist party-lists are linked to the NPA. Groups cannot be registered as party-lists if they advocate for violence. By VERA Files | May 9, 2025 | 2-minute read KEEP READING Online Posts FACT CHECK: Comelec is NOT hiring poll watchers for May 12 polls Multiple graphics circulating on Facebook are claiming that the Comelec is hiring poll watchers for the May 12 elections. These are fake. By VERA FILES | May 9, 2025 | 2-minute read KEEP READING Online Posts FACT CHECK: Clip of Alice Guo criticizing Marikina mayoral bet FAKE A clip of dismissed mayor Alice Guo of Bamban, Tarlac supposedly criticizing Marikina City Rep. Maan Teodoro is circulating on Facebook. This is fake. By VERA FILES | May 8, 2025 | 2-minute read KEEP READING Online Posts FACT CHECK: Clip of Vice Ganda warning against reelecting Cagayan de Oro lawmaker is FAKE A video advisory supposedly from Vice Ganda warning the public against voting for reelectionist Rep. Lordan Suan of Cagayan de Oro City is circulating on Facebook. This is fabricated. By VERA FILES | May 8, 2025 | 2-minute read KEEP READING Online Posts FACT CHECK: Circulating video of PNPA cadet ‘snubbing’ Marcos during commencement rites MISLEADS A clip showing a Philippine National Police Academy (PNPA) graduate supposedly ignoring President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. during a commencement ceremony on April 29 is circulating online. The video is incomplete and misleading. By VERA FILES | May 7, 2025 | 2-minute read KEEP READING Online Posts FACT CHECK: Kiko Pangilinan ‘vote’ for VP Sara’s impeachment FAKE Netizens circulated a fake quote card showing senatorial candidate Francis "Kiko" Pangilinan supposedly vowing to vote, if elected on May 12, for the impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte. By VERA FILES | May 7, 2025 | 2-minute read KEEP READING Online Posts FACT CHECK: Video of fistfight among supporters of rival bets FROM 2023 A video circulating online shows supporters of opposing candidates in a brawl supposedly ahead of the May 12 midterm elections. This is false. By VERA FILES | May 7, 2025 | 2-minute read KEEP READING Online Posts FACT CHECK: Claim that Ombudsman will suspend Luistro MISLEADS A YouTube video claims that Batangas Rep. Gerville Luistro will be suspended for vote buying and premature campaigning. This is misleading. By VERA FILES | May 7, 2025 | 2-minute read KEEP READING Online Posts FACT CHECK: NO 24-hour curfew from May 1 to 15 in Cavite A Facebook (FB) user re-uploaded an old graphic from April 2020, falsely presenting it as a recent announcement of a 24-hour curfew in Cavite from May 1 to 15. By VERA Files | May 6, 2025 | 2-minute read KEEP READING Online Posts FACT CHECK: No national ID, no vote policy FAKE A national ID is NOT required to vote in the 2025 midterm elections, contrary to a claim on a photo circulating on Facebook. By VERA Files | May 6, 2025 | 2-minute read KEEP READING Online Posts FACT CHECK: NO ICC arrest warrant for Bato dela Rosa An FB reel falsely claims that an arrest warrant for Sen. Bato Dela Rosa - top enforcer of the deadly drug war during the Duterte administration - has been issued by the ICC and sent to the Philippines. By VERA Files | May 2, 2025 | 2-minute read KEEP READING Online Posts FACT CHECK: Claim that Robredo endorsed PDP-Laban senatorial bets MISLEADS A YouTube video claims that former vice president Leni Robredo has endorsed the senatorial bets of PDP-Laban. This is misleading. By VERA FILES | May 2, 2025 | 2-minute read KEEP READING Online Posts FACT CHECK: Crowd did NOT chant ‘Marcos! Marcos!’ while VP Sara was speaking in Quiapo rally Netizens are circulating a clip from a campaign rally in Manila showing Vice President Sara Duterte before a crowd that supposedly chanted "Marcos! Marcos!" while she was speaking. The posts are misleading. By VERA FILES | May 2, 2025 | 2-minute read KEEP READING Online Posts FACT CHECK: Pasig mayoralty approval rating survey FAKE There is no Pasig City mayoralty trust approval rating survey conducted and released by the Social Weather Stations, contrary to a Facebook post. By VERA Files | Apr 30, 2025 | 2-minute read KEEP READING Online Posts FACT CHECK: Tagle NOT elected pope Two online videos are spreading the false claim that Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle has been elected as the new pope. By VERA Files | Apr 29, 2025 | 2-minute read KEEP READING Online Posts FACT CHECK: NO Meta review of PH politicians’ socmed accounts for removal A Facebook reel claims that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg had said the tech giant is reviewing and will be disabling by next year social media accounts of all Philippine politicians. This is fake. By VERA Files | Apr 28, 2025 | 2-minute read KEEP READING Online Posts FACT CHECK: Comelec did NOT misprint numbers of PDP-Laban candidates A video claiming that the Comelec purposely printed the wrong ballot numbers of three PDP-Laban senatorial bets is false. The ballot used in the video is an outdated version previously released by Comelec in January. By VERA Files | Apr 25, 2025 | 2-minute read KEEP READING Online Posts FACT CHECK: Old OCTA Research interview on fake survey revived, NEEDS CONTEXT The Facebook users who spread the video needing context stitched together OCTA Research's statement disowning a survey with the real survey published by Pulse Asia. By VERA Files | Apr 24, 2025 | 2-minute read KEEP READING Online Posts FACT CHECK: FB reels MISLEAD in claiming SC nullified VP Sara’s impeachment Misleading posts claiming that the Supreme Court has sided with Vice President Sara Duterte, thereby nullifying her impeachment, have been circulating on Facebook. By VERA Files | Apr 24, 2025 | 2-minute read KEEP READING Online Posts FACT CHECK: Circulating clip of Cebu City building on fire FROM 2023 Facebook (FB) pages are circulating a clip of a multi-storey building in Cebu City that caught fire in 2023, passing it off as new amid the extreme summer heat. By VERA Files | Apr 23, 2025 | 2-minute read KEEP READING Online Posts FACT CHECK: FB reel on Marcos’ arrest warrant MISLEADS There is no confirmation that a warrant has been issued for Marcos Jr. and Imelda over their refusal to pay a USD 353.6 million fine for the benefit of martial law victims. By VERA Files | Apr 23, 2025 | 3-minute read KEEP READING Online Posts FACT CHECK: OLD video passed off as capsized vessel in Occidental Mindoro Netizens are circulating an old clip of a capsized ferry in the Bahamas falsely claiming that it shows the vessel that sank in Rizal, Occidental Mindoro on April 15. 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