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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Mocha Uson did NOT call Sara Duterte stupid

By VERA Files | Sep 22, 2023 4:39 PM

Netizens on Facebook (FB) and on social media platform X (formerly Twitter) falsely claimed that pro-Duterte vlogger Mocha Uson called Vice President Sara Duterte-Carpio bobo (stupid). The netizens’ posts carried a video of Uson cursing during a March 18, 2017 episode of the now-defunct DZRH radio program Mocha Uson Blog. The claim is false. Uson’s […]

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Nobody special

By Elizabeth Lolarga | Sep 19, 2023 7:35 AM

Vice President Sara Duterte has been the butt of jokes, particularly in social media, over her reticence to open up as a public official about her millions of pesos of confidential funds and her extraordinary number of security guards.

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Not subject to audit is the new norm

By Antonio J. Montalvan II | Sep 19, 2023 12:38 AM

The proliferation of confidential funds has reached a fragile state that has rendered it to a point of illegitimacy, despite the joint memorandum circular allowing it.

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A coach named Zuleika

By Antonio J. Montalvan II | Sep 13, 2023 3:10 PM

By the will of Sara Duterte, her budget hearing in the Senate could have proceeded according to plan.

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: NO Marcos, Duterte order to close UP Diliman

By VERA Files | Sep 12, 2023 9:24 AM

A week before the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman opened classes, two YouTube videos falsely claimed that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Vice President Sara Duterte had shut down the university. This is not true. Uploaded on Aug. 23, the video’s headline read: “SARADO NA UP-DlLlMAN, Grabe ang UTOS ni PBBM at VPSARA, mga […]

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Sara Duterte did NOT tell teachers to ‘shut up’ over DepEd laptop issue

By VERA Files | May 18, 2023 4:01 PM

Netizens and several Facebook (FB) pages and groups are circulating a fake quote card of Vice President Sara Duterte-Carpio allegedly telling teachers to hold back their criticism over slow and outdated laptops allegedly purchased by the Department of Education (DepEd). The hoax spread as early as May 16 and was supposedly published by Sonshine Media […]

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Survey says…

By Christian Esguerra | Apr 13, 2023 5:50 PM

Kung ikaw ang i-survey, paano mo masasabi na aprub ka sa performance ng presidente o bise presidente? Alamin sa komentaryo ni Christian Esguerra ngayong linggo.

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Sara Duterte has NOT abolished K to 12

By VERA Files | Jan 18, 2023 3:41 PM

Several Facebook (FB) pages circulated a blog link claiming Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Duterte-Carpio has ordered the scrapping of the K to 12 education system. This is false. First posted on Jan. 14, the blog link carried the headline: “GOODNEWS! MATlNDlNG UTOS DEPED K 12 ni PNOY BUBUWAGIN PIRMADO NA (SEVERE ORDER PNOY’S […]

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Sara Duterte DID NOT reinstate Bantag as BuCor chief

By VERA Files | Nov 17, 2022 3:32 PM

A YouTube video has claimed that Vice President Sara Duterte-Carpio issued an order reinstating suspended Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) Director General Gerald Bantag. This is false. The video uploaded on Nov. 10 and shared on Facebook (FB) carried the headline: “KAKAPASOK LANG SA WAKAS! VPSARA UMAKSYON NA! GENERAL BANTAG BALIK BUCOR! CATAPANG UMAMIN NA REMULLA […]

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What’s up with Sara Duterte’s confidential funds?

By Antonio J. Montalván II | Sep 17, 2022 9:30 PM

Stoically she defended the proposed 2023 budget of her office at the hearing of the House Committee on Appropriations as though there was no ongoing public furor over her fondness for confidential funds. It was typical brash and nonchalant Sara Duterte.

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