VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Coco Martin quote on wanting to replace ‘everyone in gov’t’ is FROM 2015
President Rodrigo Duterte was still Davao City mayor then.
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President Rodrigo Duterte was still Davao City mayor then.
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On June 8, several netizens, including Pinoy Ako Blog author Jover Laurio, pointed out seemingly contradicting statements from San Juan City Mayor Francisco Zamora, who recently referred to his wife as a “stage 3 breast cancer patient” after claiming seven months ago that she was already “cancer free.”
President Rodrigo Duterte’s claim that the Philippines has a “low rate” of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) mortality based on population needs context.
It was photoshopped using two images.
For at least the third time, Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro “Teddy Boy” Locsin Jr. falsely claimed that the serving of a warrant of arrest for illegal drugs triggered the Marawi siege.
Lawyer and environmentalist Robert Kennedy Jr., nephew of the late United States President John F. Kennedy, wrongly claimed that a dengue vaccine developed by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) was administered on children in the Philippines, making them more sick and even causing deaths.
It also misleadingly presents the title “strongman” as a praise.
The image was from 2018.
It is yet to be transmitted to the Office of the President.