Archive - FACT CHECK

President Rodrigo Duterte and his chief legal counsel Salvador Panelo made three inaccurate claims about the International Criminal Court (ICC) in a recorded public address on July 28.

The false graphic first surfaced in June.

The law that introduced this cash incentive was signed in 2015.

After declaring last year that he would “not renege” on his decision to terminate the country’s Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the United States (U.S.), President Rodrigo Duterte backtracked and reinstated the controversial military deal as a “concession” following the donation of COVID-19 vaccines by Washington.

She gave a wrong interpretation of a recent announcement from the U.S. CDC.

The video's publisher has been flagged by VERA Files 13 times.

In his sixth and final State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 26, President Rodrigo Duterte claimed that media giant ABS-CBN has not been paying its taxes properly, adding that the network pays only a small percentage of its supposed property tax. This is false.

President Rodrigo Duterte claimed in his final State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 26 that his 2016 order on freedom of information opened up to the public various types of government records and issuances. This needs context.

The FB post and PNA’s July 26 report both need context, as Duterte’s claim is not true and has already been refuted by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) at least twice last year.

The same false claim has circulated earlier this year, and in 2018.

The FB page, in its caption, misleadingly attributed Enrile's statement on oligarchs to Bongbong Marcos, whose photo was used in the graphic.

In his sixth and final State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 26, President Rodrigo Duterte falsely claimed the 2016 arbitral award, which nullified China’s expansive nine-dash line claim over the South China Sea, does not bind Beijing.