VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Post on Marcos’ 13th month pay law NEEDS CONTEXT
PD 851 was highly selective, covering only employees “receiving a basic salary of not more than P1,000 a month."
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A vignette of Marcos profligacy
When I was a college student sometime in the late 70s, my sister’s family invited me to watch the first-ever concert in the Philippines of hitmaker Dionne Warwick.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Video with FALSE pro-Marcos claims revived
This includes some which have been debunked several times over.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Post on P500 banknote to commemorate Marcos is a SATIRE
While some people pointed out that the post was a parody, many netizens thought otherwise.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Video makes FALSE claims about Marcos human rights victims, ABS-CBN
In 1995, about 10,000 victims of human rights violations under the Marcos dictatorship won a class-action lawsuit filed in Hawaii.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Video with multiple FALSE claims on Marcos’ Swiss bank accounts back online
It claimed, among other things that the money deposited by the Marcoses did not come from ill-gotten wealth.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Post on ‘revised history books’ against Marcoses carries FALSE claims
Historians tell otherwise, as the Marcoses have a history of commissioning books with their own version of their story about former dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. and his 21-year-old martial law rule.
Ferdinand Marcos: Master in revising history
The execution was macabre and bloody. The man had readily confessed he was a Japanese collaborator.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Revived quote of Enrile on oligarchy NEEDS CONTEXT
The FB page, in its caption, misleadingly attributed Enrile's statement on oligarchs to Bongbong Marcos, whose photo was used in the graphic.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: PH NOT richest country in Asia during Marcos era
It also was not “richer” than Japan, Singapore and South Korea during Marcos’ rule.
