VERA FILES FACT CHECK: SMC’s Ramon Ang did NOT say ‘shun Starbucks’
The “fake advice” was used to link to an e-commerce site, promote a financial investment service and endorse a pair of sneakers.
The “fake advice” was used to link to an e-commerce site, promote a financial investment service and endorse a pair of sneakers.
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A quote card of Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte-Carpio that shows her saying she can spend her offices’ confidential funds in an hour or minute if she wants, is spreading on Facebook (FB). Several readers asked VERA Files Fact Check to look into it. The graphic is fabricated. Bearing the logo of Sonshine […]
A Facebook video claimed that the Philippines and South Korea have entered into an alliance to oppose China. This is false. There is no such agreement between the two countries. Uploaded on Sept. 25, the video is a clickbait that merely showed clips of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s visit to a Philippine Navy drill and […]
Facebook (FB) netizens resurfaced an old clip of Taal Volcano spewing plumes, claiming it happened last month. Not true. The clip was from the volcano’s eruption in March 2022. Circulated as early as Sept. 22, the 42-second video shows residents screaming as they observed a series of explosions generating ash plumes from the volcano’s crater. […]
A Facebook page posted a fabricated front page of the Manila Bulletin (MB) that shows a headline about the Sandiganbayan ordering the arrest of Camarines Sur 2nd District Rep. Luis Raymund “LRay” Villafuerte Jr. for an P800 million graft and corruption case. “Sandiganbayan suspends LRay Villafuerte over 800 million graft,” the headline of the bogus […]
A verified YouTube channel is claiming that Typhoon Jenny (international name: Koinu) is twice as powerful as Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan). Another video claimed that Typhoon Jenny will hit Luzon. Both claims are false. Typhoon Jenny’s maximum sustained winds, as predicted, will be lower than Typhoon Yolanda’s peak intensity in 2013. According to the Philippine […]
A two-month old YouTube video that was reuploaded by a Facebook (FB) page last Sept. 23 claimed that the United States, in a show of force, flew a nuclear bomber plane over Chinese airspace. This is not true. The last reported deployment of two B-15 Stratofortress Bomber planes was in Indonesia last June to train […]
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VERA Files Fact Check flagged a total of six Facebook (FB) Reels, three Instagram Reels and three TikTok posts that resurfaced the old video of Taal volcano this month. These garnered a total of 1.84 million interactions.