Archive - FACT CHECK

Website opinyonko.com revived Nov. 15 a misleading and previously debunked four-year-old claim about a "useless" footbridge constructed under the Aquino administration.

He recently said the Marawi crisis was 'not an overt act of rebellion.'

Website trendingbalita.online published on Oct. 28 a misleading report on how the University of the Philippines fared in the 2019 QS Asian University Rankings by mixing fact with opinion.

On the contrary, what it awarded Marcos is the record for holding the "greatest robbery of a government," which he has held since April 23, 1986.

A report published on Nov. 15 by website ddsonline.live claiming that President Rodrigo Duterte was named the new country coordinator of the ASEAN because of the group’s confidence in him is misleading.

A video published by a pro-Duterte Facebook page on Nov. 14 that shows photos of Vice President Leni Robredo with a man it claims is her “ex-lover” is fake news.

Several Facebook pages recently revived an old misleading report by website The Daily Sentry (thedailysentry.net) that skews a three-year-old statement Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas made about "homily abuse".

A netizen published on Nov. 9 a misleading online post that uses old photos to insinuate that the Liberal Party committed poll fraud in the 2016 elections.

Silent No More PH published fake news on Nov. 14, attributing a fabricated quote to Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who supposedly declared the Benham Rise and the "entire eastern Philippine sea" as Chinese territory.

In Puerto Princesa, he ranted about drugs, crime, oil fields and World War II, among others.

A Nov. 7 online post by a fake Facebook page under the name of China Telecommunications Corporation that raffles off "free lifetime internet connection" and a smartphone via an online contest is a hoax.

Former newscaster Jay Sonza has wrongly credited the Duterte administration solely for establishing the country’s first integrated land transport terminal, the Parañaque Integrated Terminal Exchange.