Archive - FACT CHECK

Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo’s claim on Vice President Leni Robredo’s exit from President Rodrigo Duterte’s Cabinet in 2016 lacks context.

While recalling his experience in dealing with disasters as former Davao City mayor, President Rodrigo Duterte mistakenly claimed that Davao City is the “biggest” city in the world.

Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. erroneously claimed that the respondents in the latest Pulse Asia survey who said they “approve” of President Rodrigo Duterte did so “to the max” with “no exceptions.”

No such pronouncement has come from either the president or Malacañang.

The circulating photos actually show victims of Tropical Storm Wipha in Vietnam, which ravaged the country’s northern provinces in August last year.

Several social media users, including former ABS-CBN broadcaster Jay Sonza, shared on Facebook (FB) an altered photo of an ABS-CBN News van, falsely claiming it overturned as Typhoon Ulysses raged over Luzon on Nov. 12.

All four clips featured in the 46-second video show different instances of flooding in Laos and Thailand.

No LPAs or storms have been observed forming near the country or in the PAR, at least for the next few days, according to latest forecasts.

The Duterte administration sent mixed signals on coming up with an “arrangement” on defense matters with the United States (U.S.) when it recently suspended for another six months the abrogation of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA).

The circulating images are nearly nine years old and show the aftermath of a different typhoon.

Self-proclaimed political operator and strategist Franco Mabanta, a supporter of President Rodrigo Duterte and defeated vice presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., wrongly said that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the first pandemic “in a century.”

Only one image actually shows Rolly’s aftermath. The rest show the damage from two powerful storms from past years.