VERA Files
Filipino voters head to the polls on Monday after months of being engulfed in a relentless and widening stream of falsehoods spewed out in multiple formats and platforms that is unprecedented in the country’s history.
Whether in boxing or politics, Manny Pacquiao never throws in the towel.
Maribojoc, Bohol – With the lifting of the two–and-a-half-year ban on fiestas due to the Covid 19 pandemic, local folks are back to enjoying this much-loved celebration this month. And in an election year like this, the festivities are even more exciting with the anticipation of a political windfall.
Press freedom advocates lamented that the utilization of systematic and deliberate disinformation has not only threatened democracy, but it also “uses hard-earned liberties to kill democracy itself.”
Cracks in the Marcos political machine started to show in the 1984 Batasan election. And the dictator’s last campaign ended in a popular revolt that forced him, his family, and his cabal into exile.
Not even the PR firm with some of the best access to the gates of power in Washington could save Marcos after his own military and the U.S. turned against him in the final days of his dictatorship.
A creation myth in Philippine folklore, the Marcoses co-opted the Malakas at Maganda myth in the 1970s and anointed themselves as “the strong one” and “ the beautiful one” under “the new society.”
It was a show of force in the grandest rally held on April 23 in Pasay City dubbed “Araw Na10 ‘To!”. The stretch of Macapagal Avenue was a sea of […]
Former senator and Partido Federal ng Pilipinas (PFP) presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. finally secured the endorsement of Laguna Gov. Ramil Hernandez during the UniTeam Grand Rally held at […]
Editor’s note: There are more than 159,000 Filipino immigrants and migrant workers in Taiwan. To address the misinformation threat the Philippine diaspora communities are facing as diaspora, Taiwan FactCheck Center […]