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: ‘Kikiam,’ ‘fishball,’ not made of snake meat A Facebook post of a Filipino netizen about the alleged use of snake meat as an ingredient in several street food is false. The photos used in the post were neither from the Philippines nor for street food production. A similar story has already been debunked in Thailand. By VERA Files | Sep 28, 2019 | 5-minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Videos of anti-drug police making student, car model ‘strip and bend over’ NOT TRUE These reports are fake. By VERA Files | Sep 26, 2019 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: VP vote result NOT ‘final and official’ This story is false. Don't believe it. By VERA FILES | Sep 25, 2019 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT SHEET: Five things you should know about presidential pardons On orders of President Rodrigo Duterte, 10 high-profile convicts from the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa were transferred to the Philippine Marine Barracks in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City, citing “threats to their security.” By VERA Files | Sep 23, 2019 | 5-minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte Youth’s Cardema spews three false claims in Comelec withdrawal notice Disqualified Duterte Youth party-list nominee and former National Youth Commission head Ronald Cardema made three false claims in his Notice of Withdrawal submitted before the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Sept. 13. By VERA Files | Sep 18, 2019 | 4-minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: FB post on world’s biggest anti-SOGIE bill rally FALSE The photo is not from an anti-SOGIE bill protest. By VERA Files | Sep 18, 2019 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: FB post on Diez wanting gay lingo as nat’l language NOT TRUE The post is fake. By VERA Files | Sep 18, 2019 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte shifts from ‘invoking’ to ‘ignoring’ the PCA ruling Fresh from his five-day official visit to China, President Rodrigo Duterte went from “invoking” to “ignoring” the Philippines’ historic win on the South China Sea dispute at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA). By VERA Files | Sep 17, 2019 | 3-minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK Senate bill goes after online ‘fake news,’ but Tsek.ph data point to wider problem By seeking to penalize only “false and deceiving content online,” the bill neglects disinformation that spread through other vectors. By Jake Soriano and Yvonne Chua | Sep 13, 2019 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: MMDA Spox Celine Pialago wrongly claims no gov’t efforts to solve Metro Manila traffic in past 40 years Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) spokesperson Assistant Secretary Celine Pialago is wrong in saying the government has not built any infrastructure or made any effort to solve the traffic congestion in Metro Manila in the past 40 years. MMDA in itself was established 24 years ago to address that. By VERA Files | Sep 13, 2019 | 4-minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Report on Duterte signing law granting P50K-bonus for SSS members a HOAX This post is fake. Don't believe it. By VERA Files | Sep 12, 2019 | -minute read KEEP READING FACT CHECK VERA FILES FACT CHECK: No, Gretchen Diez is NOT calling for LGBT ‘heroes’ in Mobile Legends, online games This post is fake. Don't believe it. By VERA Files | Sep 12, 2019 | -minute read KEEP READING Posts pagination Newer posts 1 … 224 225 226 227 228 … 292 Older posts
