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Tag: #VFYearender2020

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    Categories Editor's Pick FACT CHECK News

    VERA FILES YEARENDER: Red-tagging online ramps up as Anti-Terror Law takes effect in 2020

    By Celine Isabelle Samson  |  Dec 26, 2020 5:00 PM

    In the wake of discussions and the eventual enactment this year of Republic Act No. 11479 or the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA), Filipinos saw a wave of personalities being painted in one color: Red.

    #VFYearender2020, 2020 yearender, Anti-terror law, red-tagging, yearender

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    VERA FILES FACT CHECK YEARENDER: The two faces of COVID-19 lockdown in the Philippines

    By Elijah Roderos and Ivel John Santos  |  Dec 21, 2020 4:40 PM

    In more than nine months of community quarantine in the country, law enforcers have warned, given tickets to, and arrested about 598,000 persons, whom they call “pasaway,” for allegedly violating quarantine and health protocols meant to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

    #VFYearender2020, 2020 yearender, covid-19PH, Francisco Zamora, Harry Roque, LOCKDOWN, Manny Pacquiao, Mocha Uson, PIMENTEL, quarantine breach, quarantine violation apprehension, sinas, two faces, yearender

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    VERA FILES FACT CHECK YEARENDER: The Duterte administration’s share of COVID misinformation

    By Meeko Angela Camba and Blanch Ancla  |  Dec 19, 2020 2:43 PM

    President Rodrigo Duterte and his government met the deluge of inaccurate claims about the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic with a clampdown on what it referred to as “fake news.”

    #VFYearender2020, 2020 yearender, covid-19PH, Duterte administration, misinformation, yearender

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    VERA FILES FACT CHECK YEARENDER: Monthly ‘mutations’ of COVID-19 online mis- and disinformation

    By Merinette Retona and Enrico Berdos  |  Dec 16, 2020 5:10 PM

    The COVID-19 pandemic has not only brought upon sickness and death to millions around the world. It has also led to the overabundance of mis- and disinformation related to the disease, made even more damaging by their virality on social media.

    #VFYearender2020, COVID-19, disinformation, misinformation, online disinformation, online misinformation, yearender

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