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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Pelosi DID NOT use a submarine to travel to Taiwan

By VERA Files | Aug 06, 2022 1:11 PM

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rode a U.S. Air Force plane, not a submarine, to get to Taiwan on Aug. 2. No Chinese government official threatened to shoot down Pelosi’s plane to Taiwan, but a columnist from the Chinese state-controlled newspaper Global Times warned that the military has the right to do so.

Nancy Pelosi

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: 1988 article does NOT state nun close to Cory Aquino played mahjong

By VERA Files | Aug 05, 2022 10:02 AM

In an attempt to prove that a scene in the film “Maid in Malacañang” is historically accurate, the theater group of its director Darryl Yap on Facebook (FB) cited an article that supposedly states a nun close to the late President Corazon Aquino played mahjong. This is not true. On Aug. 2, FB page VinCentiments […]

Christine Tan, Cory Aquino, maid in malacanang

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marcos Sr. NEVER promised to give away his wealth

By vera files fact check | Aug 04, 2022 12:14 PM

A vlogger on Facebook used a YouTube video that falsely claimed that the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. promised to give away his wealth to the Filipino people. Official legal documents prove otherwise. Marcos’ last will and testaments dated 1982 and 1988 show that the former president only entrusted his wealth to his immediate family […]

false, Marcos wealth, video, YouTube

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Doc Willie Ong NOT endorsing hemorrhoid cream

By VERA Files | Aug 04, 2022 9:59 AM

A Facebook (FB) page has again used the name and face of cardiologist and social media personality Dr. Willie Ong, this time, to promote a hemorrhoid cream. It is bogus marketing. The quote card appeared online on July 3 and was created as if published by The Philippine Star. It featured an image of Ong […]

Doc Willie Ong

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Queue in Japan MISLEADINGLY used to show commuters in S. Korea

By VERA Files | Aug 03, 2022 6:30 PM

A photo of a queue taken outside an embassy in Tokyo, Japan, was used by a Facebook (FB) page to misrepresent commuters in South Korea. The page’s post was an apparent attempt to show the supposedly similar conditions of commuters in the Philippines and its two Asian neighbors. FB page President BBM Supporters’ post was […]

commuters, Japan, South Korea

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Video claiming Kris Aquino wants to apologize to Marcos is NOT TRUE

By VERA Files | Aug 03, 2022 6:10 PM

A video on Facebook (FB) falsely claims that multi-media personality Kris Aquino is asking President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos for forgiveness over the “sins” committed by her family against the latter’s family. The video was published on June 12 and continued to circulate this week. It bore the headline: “Kris Aquino, humihingi Ng tawad (asking for […]

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: The ICC HAS jurisdiction to investigate in PH

By VERA Files | Aug 03, 2022 11:57 AM

A Facebook (FB) post claimed that the International Criminal Court (ICC) cannot interfere and investigate deaths related to the drug war in the Philippines because President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. declared the country would not rejoin the ICC. This claim is false. The ICC and the Supreme Court both ruled that the Hague-based court retains […]

bongbong marcos, Duterte war on drugs, ICC

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Quiboloy’s proposed canonization of Ateneo shooting suspect is SATIRE

By VERA Files | Aug 03, 2022 11:43 AM

A satirical Facebook (FB) post is misleading netizens into believing that Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KJC) founder Pastor Apollo Quiboloy wants doctor Chao Tiao Yumol to be canonized or declared a saint. Yumol fatally shot three persons, including former Lamitan, Basilan mayor Rose Furigay, during a graduation ceremony at the Ateneo de Manila University in […]

Apollo Quiboloy, Ateneo, Chao Tiao Yumol

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: FALSE “Magnanakaw” label of Aquino vs Marcos family

By vera files fact check | Aug 02, 2022 5:59 PM

A Facebook (FB) video falsely stated that there is evidence to call the Aquino family “magnanakaw” (thieves) while there is none for the Marcoses. Not true. The so-called evidence against the Aquinos was a fake Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas document used as basis for the plunder and graft charges against ex-president Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III […]

Aquino, BSP, maid in malacanang, marcos, Marcos ill-gotten wealth

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Quote card of ‘Iska’ on ROTC is NOT TRUE

By VERA Files | Aug 02, 2022 10:49 AM

Several Facebook (FB) groups and pages are spreading a fabricated remark attributed to a “University of the Philippines (UP) student” on the proposed revival of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program. The fake quote first appeared on a satirical FB page. The quote card initially came out on July 28 and featured the alleged […]

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