Typhoon Paeng Archives

VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Old photos FALSELY passed off as Paeng’s effect on farmers

By VERA Files | Nov 04, 2022 1:32 PM

Various Facebook (FB) pages are sharing an album of images supposedly showing the ramifications of Typhoon Paeng (international name: Nalgae) on Filipino farmers. The album erroneously used old photos and passed them off as new. Uploaded on Oct. 29, the posts featured eight images of devastated crops, crying farmers and dead livestock. Its caption read: […]

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Impostor group posts FAKE DSWD ayuda call for typhoon victims

By VERA Files | Nov 03, 2022 3:24 PM

A Facebook (FB) group posing as the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) created two posts falsely interpreted by typhoon victims as a legitimate raffle for government aid. The impostor FB group DSWD Ayuda Update created two posts on Oct. 29, that urged people to send a message to another bogus FB group named […]