Skip to the content
VERA Files banner logoVERA Files
  • Fact Check
    • Fact Check Filipino
  • Latest
    • Podcast
    • News
    • Commentary
    • Arts & Culture
  • Special Coverage
    • THE ICC PROBE Duterte’s Drug War
      • ICC-related resources
    • Marcos Files
    • PHL Vote 2022
    • Seeing through the Smoke
      • How the tobacco industry interferes in policy making
    • The Chit Estella Road Safety Page
    • On The Record, where VERA Files was seen and heard
    • COVID-19 Watch
    • Health
    • Earth Files
    • PWD Files
      • PWD Vote
    • Trafficking Casewatch
    • SONA 2020 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2019 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2018 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2017 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2016 Promise Tracker
    • ARMM Watch
    • PHL Vote 2019
    • PHL Vote 2016
    • ASEAN at 50
  • Learning Corner
  • Fact Check
    • Fact Check Filipino
  • Latest
    • Podcast
    • News
    • Commentary
    • Arts & Culture
  • Special Coverage
    • THE ICC PROBE Duterte’s Drug War
      • ICC-related resources
    • Marcos Files
    • PHL Vote 2022
    • Seeing through the Smoke
      • How the tobacco industry interferes in policy making
    • The Chit Estella Road Safety Page
    • On The Record, where VERA Files was seen and heard
    • COVID-19 Watch
    • Health
    • Earth Files
    • PWD Files
      • PWD Vote
    • Trafficking Casewatch
    • SONA 2020 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2019 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2018 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2017 Promise Tracker
    • SONA 2016 Promise Tracker
    • ARMM Watch
    • PHL Vote 2019
    • PHL Vote 2016
    • ASEAN at 50
  • Learning Corner
  • fb
  • tw
  • instagram
  • linkedin
  • yt

Tag: EDSA People Power Revolution

  • VERAFIED: Marcos’ order not to shoot at civilians at EDSA NEEDS CONTEXT
    Categories FACT CHECK FB FC

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marcos’ order not to shoot at civilians at EDSA NEEDS CONTEXT

    By VERA Files  |  Mar 06, 2023 2:05 PM

    A Facebook (FB) post claimed that former president Ferdinand Marcos ordered soldiers to “disperse the crowd at EDSA without shooting them” because he did not want to hurt Filipinos. This needs context.

    EDSA People Power Revolution, Ferdinand Marcos Sr.

  • Larry Gadon
    Categories FACT CHECK NED FC

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Gadon falsely claims that human rights violations under Marcos Sr. regime were mere propaganda of ‘yellows’

    By VERA Files  |  Mar 02, 2023 12:11 PM

    According to the Human Rights Violations Victims’ Memorial Commission, there were 11,103 people who suffered under the Marcos regime and eligible to receive compensation from the P10-billion fund forfeited from the Swiss accounts of the late dictator’s family.

    EDSA People Power Revolution, Ferdinand Marcos Sr., Human Rights Violations, larry gadon

  • Larry Gadon
    Categories Fact Check Filipino

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Pahayag ni Gadon na propaganda lamang ng mga ‘dilaw’ ang mga paglabag sa karapatang pantao sa ilalim ng rehimeng Marcos Sr. HINDI TOTOO

    By VERA Files  |  Mar 02, 2023 12:11 PM

    Dokumentado ng Human Rights Violations Victims’ Memorial Commission ang 11,103 biktima ng ang mga paglabag sa karapatang pantao sa rehimeng Marcos na itinuturing na karapat-dapat na tumanggap ng mga kompensasyon na nagmula sa P10-bilyong pondo mula sa Marcos Swiss account.

    EDSA People Power Revolution, Ferdinand Marcos Sr., Human Rights Violations, larry gadon

  • Marcos admin flip-flops on Feb. 24-25 holiday declaration
    Categories Fact Check Filipino

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marcos admin nag-flip-flop sa deklarasyon ng Feb. 24-25 bilang holiday

    By VERA Files  |  Feb 24, 2023 8:05 PM

    Marami ang naguluhan sa biglaang pagdeklara ng Malacanang na special (non-working) holiday ang Pebrero 24. Nalito ang mga pumapasok sa trabaho at eskwela tuwing Sabado.

    EDSA People Power Revolution, Ferdinang Marcos Jr., holiday economics

  • People Power sa lente ni Bullit
    Categories Editor's Pick Podcast

    People Power sa lente ni Bullit

    By VERA Files  |  Feb 24, 2023 12:58 PM

    Nakaukit na sa kasaysayan ng Pilipinas ang mga litrato ng EDSA People Power Revolution na kuha ng batikang photojournalist na si Bullit Marquez.

    Para sa ika-21 episode ng What The F?! Podcast, binalikan ni Bullit ang kwento ng apat na araw niyang coverage noong Pebrero 1986.

    1986, EDSA 1, EDSA People Power Revolution, Ferdinand Marcos

  • Categories Editor's Pick News

    ‘EDSA is not just four days in February’: A first-person account

    By LOURDES MOLINA-FERNANDEZ  |  Feb 24, 2011 1:49 PM

    EDSA, from my perspective as then editor-in-chief of the “Mosquito Press” pioneer Ang Pahayagang Malaya of Joe Burgos Jr., broke in the early afternoon of Feb. 22, 1986 when I received a phone call from Malaya’s Malacanang reporter, Butch Fernandez, who said he had heard the distinct “ting-ting-ting” of the teletype machine that receives wire-agency news feed at the Palace press room, indicating an urgent, big development.

    EDSA 1, EDSA People Power Revolution

Network Memberships

VERA Files IFCN Badge
VERA Files Meta Third-Party Fact Checking Badge
GIJN Member
  • About
  • Privacy Policy

Be relevant. Subscribe to the VERA Files newsletter.

* indicates required


  • fb
  • tw
  • instagram
  • linkedin
  • yt
  • Viber

© 2023 VERA Files

Privacy Policy

  • Share on Facebook
  • Share on Twitter
  • Share on Reddit
  • Save to your Google bookmark
  • Save to Pocket