Archive - FACT CHECK Year all all 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 Items per page 12 12 18 24 30 FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Viral posts use WRONG figures on Aquino, Duterte national debt The numbers are inaccurate and the comparison is misleading. By VERA Files | Aug 5, 2020 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte claim ‘no abuses’ in Mindanao martial law FALSE President Rodrigo Duterte’s claim that martial law in Mindanao “ended without abuses” runs contrary to reports from different human rights watchdogs and advocacy groups. By VERA Files | Aug 1, 2020 | 5-minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Videos on ‘approval’ of Fabunan Antiviral drug in PH, Indonesia ERRONEOUS The Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia told VERA Files “there hasn’t been anything granted” to FAI in the Southeast Asian country. By VERA Files | Jul 31, 2020 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Free WiFi in public places law was signed in 2017, NOT 2020 Duterte signed RA 10929 nearly three years ago on Aug. 2, 2017. By VERA Files | Jul 31, 2020 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Post claiming MVP ‘blocked’ Vice Ganda from TV5 NOT TRUE The report makes several allegations that are not backed up by its sources. By VERA Files | Jul 31, 2020 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: These photos of nuns are from DIFFERENT years The two photos show a different set of nuns in different places at different times. By VERA Files | Jul 31, 2020 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte DID NOT cancel classes for 2020-2021 during SONA School year 2020-2021 is still slated to begin on Aug. 24. By VERA Files | Jul 30, 2020 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Gargling water with salt, vinegar DOES NOT ‘remove’ coronavirus This has been debunked by the Department of Health. It has also been fact-checked in six continents. By VERA Files | Jul 30, 2020 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: FB pages, users MISLEAD with unrelated photos on bubonic plague It included images of arms with burns and boils that have nothing to do with the disease. By VERA Files | Jul 30, 2020 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Viral FB post NOT TRUE; classes set to resume on August 24 School year 2020-2021 will open on Aug. 24. By VERA Files | Jul 29, 2020 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Briones NEVER said ‘if we die, we die’ on classes opening The versions changed the Education secretary's original statement. By VERA Files | Jul 29, 2020 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK FACT CHECK: Defensor mistakes PDRs for foreign ownership Issuing Philippine Depositary Receipts (PDRs) to foreigners does not equate to granting them actual ownership, contrary to a statement of ANAKALUSUGAN Party-list Rep. Mike Defensor on the denial of ABS-CBN’s franchise bid. By VERA Files | Jul 28, 2020 | 3-minute read KEEP READING Posts pagination Newer posts 1 … 189 190 191 192 193 … 292 Older posts
