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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Resigned executive secretary Rodriguez retracts statement on Cabinet post
More than two weeks after announcing his resignation as executive secretary, lawyer Victor Rodriguez backtracked on his statement that he would continue serving the country as presidential chief of staff.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Nagbitiw na executive secretary Rodriguez binawi ang pahayag tungkol sa puwesto sa Gabinete
Mahigit dalawang linggo matapos ipahayag ang kanyang pagbibitiw bilang executive secretary, binago ng abogadong si Victor Rodriguez ang kanyang pahayag na magpapatuloy siya sa pagsisilbi sa bansa bilang presidential chief of staff.
Hindi feel ng media ang proteksyon ni Pangulong Marcos
Wishful thinking ba kung patigilin niya ang trolls sa pagkakalat ng kasinungalingan?
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Pahayag ng Press Secretary na ang inflation ay ‘hindi dahil sa anumang mga lokal na kadahilanan’ NAKALILIGAW
Sinabi ni Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles na ang dahilan ng pagtaas ng inflation sa bansa ay ang peso-dollar exchange rate na bumagsak sa pinakamababang halaga, at “hindi dahil sa anumang lokal kadahilanan.” Ito ay nakaliligaw.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Press Secretary misleads with statement that inflation is ‘not due to any local factors’
Sonny Africa, executive director of IBON Foundation, told VERA Files Fact Check in an email that while rising global prices of food and the depreciation of the peso, driven by interest rate hikes in the United States, are indeed immediate inflation factors, the government has “direct control over factors like the excise and value added taxes it puts on goods and services consumed or, like fuel, used to produce other goods and services.”
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Pahayag ni Marcos na ‘nananatiling on track’ ang PH para maabot ang upper middle-income status sa 2023 nangangailangan ng konteksto
Sinabi ni Pangulong Ferdinand Marcos Jr. sa United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) na ang Pilipinas ay nananatiling “on track” para maabot ang upper middle-income status sa 2023 “sa kabila ng mga hamon ng pandemya at ng pagkadiskaril ng pandaigdigang ekonomiya.” Ito ay nangangailangan ng konteksto.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marcos’ claim that PH ‘remains on track’ to reach upper middle-income status by 2023 needs context
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. claimed before the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) that the Philippines remains “on track” to reach upper middle-income status by 2023 “despite the challenges of the pandemic and the global economic upheavals.” This needs context.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Post ni Marcos Jr. na nagpapakita ng malaking audience habang nagsasalita siya sa UNGA nangangailangan ng konteksto
Isang video na nai-post sa Facebook page ni Pangulong Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. noong Setyembre 22 ang nagpapakita ng mga kuha ng malaking audience sa ika-77 sesyon ng United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) habang siya ay nagtatalumpati noong Setyembre 21 (Manila Time).
Book, website launched by UP scholars to thwart Marcos lies
The fight against lies is an uphill battle. But someone has to do it. As the Marcos family and their supporters ramp up the propagation of myths that distort history, scholars from the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman are using the results of their search for truth and sharing it with the public. Joel
