FACT CHECK: Atong Ang photo, video at Bangkok airport AI-GENERATED
A photo circulating on Facebook claiming to show gambling magnate Atong Ang in Bangkok is AI-generated.
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FACT CHECK: Atong Ang quote on reward for flood control masterminds FALSE
Multiple posts circulating online features Atong Ang, now a subject of intense manhunt over cases involving dozens of missing cockfighting enthusiasts or sabungeros, supposedly offering to triple the P10-million bounty on his head for capturing the masterminds in the flood control corruption scandal if he could prove them. This is false.
FACT CHECK: NBI has NOT arrested Atong Ang
A Facebook post claims that businessman and fugitive Atong Ang, linked to the missing sabungeros case, was arrested by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI). This is false.
Who were the godparents of E-sabong?
Rodrigo Duterte turned government into one national gambling machinery by making E-sabong a state-enabled enterprise. By 2021, the system spanned 14 regions of the country.
