VERA Files
A Facebook (FB) page has posted an announcement that IKEA is donating couches that cannot be sold due to “minor damage” to anyone who registers with the website it linked. […]
A television news report was spliced to produce an ad for a hair growth serum, and featured video snippets of a celebrity dermatologist and vlogger-doctors to suggest they are endorsing […]
A netizen’s post on a Facebook (FB) group claims that Social Welfare Secretary Erwin Tulfo has approved cash assistance of 10,000 for every Filipino family. Neither Tulfo nor the Department […]
Several Facebook (FB) pages are circulating photos, said to have been taken during a crowd crush in a mall due to an air conditioner sale. The pictures were from somewhere […]
A Facebook (FB) page is circulating a fraudulent advertisement about a milk product that allegedly treats gout within a week and reduces uric acid levels after using it for a […]
Several Facebook (FB) pages are fraudulently promoting a milk supplement that claims to treat diabetes in just under a week. The promo posts appeared as early as Sept. 19 and […]
An impostor Facebook (FB) page is using medical practitioner Liza Ramoso-Ong to endorse a lotus root powder that allegedly helps people lose weight. This supplement is not registered with the […]
Another set of fake Facebook (FB) advertisements claimed that several people fainted after crowding and lining up at SM Mall of Asia (MOA) to buy a Japanese air conditioner. It […]
Another Facebook (FB) page has illicitly used the face of Web-popular cardiologist Doc Willie Ong, this time, to promote a supplement supposedly effective against diabetes. On Oct. 20, the page […]
Two Facebook (FB) pages uploaded a doctored news report on an intellectually-gifted young boy and created the post as if it were an advertisement for a children’s multivitamin called Bearbites. […]