Archive - FACT CHECK

A Facebook page reuploaded a TikTok video claiming that Vice President Leni Robredo has pending cases, including sedition. This is misleading.

A video peddles false claims about the declaration of Martial Law and about former senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr’s supposed ties with communists.

Netizens reuploaded a snippet of a YouTube video containing baseless claims about the Marcos family inheriting and distributing wealth.

FB post claims that Vice President Leni Robredo slept in an airport lounge for five hours. The sleeping woman in the photo is actually her daughter.

A local airline pilot alleged that Vice President Leni Robredo asked for priority landing, causing the diversion of their flight to another airport. This is false.

Marcos did not say that he favors granting a franchise to ABS-CBN. But he did say that the media network should first resolve the issues raised against it before reapplying for a franchise at the House of Representatives’ committee on legislative franchises.

False claims about contractualization, ROTC, and Bataan Nuclear Power Plant under administration of the late president Corazon Aquino.

Section 3, Article VII of the 1987 Constitution specifically states that the vice president, if appointed to a Cabinet position, is exempted from the scrutiny of the CA, which is mandated to approve or disapprove appointments made by the president.

“This announcement is FAKE. The government no longer uses quarantine levels such as ‘GCQ’ in favor of the Alert Level system, the Department of Health (DOH)’s official Facebook page said in a May 13 public advisory.

Jayne Blackwell, the Opera House’s Head of Venue and Event Sales, disowned the circulating photo in a May 16 email to VERA Files Fact Check.

For at least the second time, President Rodrigo Duterte wrongly claimed that there is a pending case against him before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in relation to his bloody war against illegal drugs.

Reverse image search shows that the photo of the towers was originally uploaded to Twitter on Dec. 2, 2016, during the 45th anniversary of United Arab Emirates (UAE) National day. The tower lights also flashed images of the UAE’s national flag, and had nothing to do with the political campaign in the Philippines.