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Tag: PCOO

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    Categories Editor's Pick FACT CHECK News

    VERA Files’ statement on PCOO’s #RealNumbers in Fighting Illegal Drugs

    By VERA Files  |  Jul 15, 2019 12:46 PM

    ​VERA Files stands by its Fact Check that Communications Assistant Secretary Maria Rafael-Banaag contradicted official government data on drug war when she denied that tens of thousands have been killed in the Duterte administration’s controversial anti-illegal-drug campaign.

    Banaag, drug war, PCOO, Real Numbers PH

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    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Timeline of false claims by PH gov’t on UN human rights report

    By VERA Files  |  Oct 05, 2017 8:51 PM

    The thread of disinformation dates back to May.

    DFA, PCOO, upr

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    Categories FACT CHECK News

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Duterte cleared of involvement in the Davao Death Squad?

    By Vera Files  |  Mar 04, 2017 10:09 PM

    Shortly after self-confessed hitman Arturo Lascañas pinned then Davao City mayor now president Rodrigo Duterte as mastermind of the Davao Death Squad (DDS), Communications Secretary Martin Andanar belied this claim.

    andanar, Davao death squad, Duterte, Lascanas, Matobato, PCOO

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    Categories News

    Concerns raised on Malacañang’s social media policy

    By Maria Feona Imperial  |  Mar 03, 2017 8:56 AM

    The newly-crafted social media policy that seeks to grant bloggers access to cover Malacanang events drew mixed reactions from bloggers, lawyers, internet rights advocates and the academe for its implications on Internet freedom.

    Martin Andanar, PCOO, Social media

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