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Environment advocates brought their demand to stop the reclamation in Manila Bay, Bulacan and other parts of the country to Mendiola, near Malacañang. They also want to hold accountable government agencies and officials allowing the destruction of the environment.
Man tampers with God’s design for the Earth disturbing the natural ecosystem and displacing marine life. Photos by Bullit Marquez for VERA Files.
A TikTok video misused photos showing Manila Bay full of garbage to claim that this was the state of the body of water under five presidents before Rodrigo Duterte. Through reverse image search, VERA Files Fact Check found that six of these photos were from 2018, within the term of Duterte, who took office in […]
Several Facebook (FB) pages posted an image showing contrasting conditions of the Manila Bay, suggesting that outgoing President Rodrigo Duterte did a better job than his predecessor, the late former President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III, in cleaning up the famous harbor. It is misleading. The deceptive graphic was posted on June 7 and continues to […]
The video was overlaid with an audio from another TikTok video where a crowd can be heard chanting “Marcos, Marcos pa rin”, with the former senator seen encouraging them to continue chanting his name. This was uploaded last Oct. 25.
The two shots were taken in two different areas of the Manila Bay, both under Duterte’s term.
Both were taken over the past nine months.
The ‘before’ photo, carried by the June 17 posts of Duterte Social Media Supporter and one other netizen, was published originally by local media network UNTV in August 2018, or two years into Duterte’s term.
The top image was taken two years into the presidency of Rodrigo Duterte.
Nag post ang dating brodkaster na si Jay Sonza, isang Facebook (FB) user, at isang FB page ng dinoktor na litrato ng dolomite beach ng Manila Bay na ilang ulit nang pinasinungalingan ng mga fact-checker.