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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marcos Jr. mali sa pagsabing ‘naging isyu lamang sa halalan’ ang West PH Sea dispute ngayong eleksyon ng Mayo 2022

By VERA Files | Feb 18, 2022 5:27 PM

Sa kanyang unang pagharap sa debate sa kampanya para sa eleksyon sa Mayo 2022, iginiit ng kandidato sa pagkapangulo na si Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. na ang West Philippine Sea (WPS) dispute ay naging isyu sa halalan lamang sa kampanyang ito. Ito ay hindi totoo.

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marcos Jr. falsely claims West PH Sea dispute ‘only became an election issue’ in the May 2022 polls

By VERA FILES | Feb 18, 2022 4:00 PM

The WPS issue, including the harassment that Filipino fishermen suffer, was raised in past national elections.

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marcoleta gumawa ng dalawang maling pahayag tungkol kay dating SC justice Carpio, West PH Sea arbitral award

By VERA Files | Aug 31, 2021 8:03 PM

Iginiit ni House Deputy Speaker Rodante Marcoleta na nagsampa ng kaso si dating Supreme Court (SC) associate justice Antonio Carpio laban kay Chinese President Xi Jinping sa International Court of Justice (ICJ) noong Marso 2019. Hindi ito totoo.

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marcoleta makes two inaccurate claims on former SC justice Carpio, West PH Sea arbitral award

By VERA Files | Aug 31, 2021 7:21 PM

House Deputy Speaker Rodante Marcoleta claimed that former Supreme Court (SC) associate justice Antonio Carpio filed a case against Chinese President Xi Jinping before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in March 2019. This is false.

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: An int’l court did NOT scold Carpio on WPS issue

By VERA Files | Aug 20, 2021 5:45 PM

There are no records from the ICC that support this, and neither has any local nor international media reported on it.

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Photo of Australian ship WRONGLY shown as ‘Chinese vessel in WPS’ dumping waste

By VERA Files | Jul 14, 2021 8:37 PM

Netizens continued to repost the misleading graphic even after GMA News issued a correction.

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Bong Go’s 2018 photos in Aurora FALSELY used to claim Duterte has fulfilled jet ski vow

By VERA Files | May 28, 2021 9:46 AM

Duterte has done no such thing, and has even called this vow a “campaign joke.”

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: ABS-CBN did NOT publish ‘fake’ report on Bajo de Masinloc fisherfolk

By VERA Files | May 26, 2021 6:00 PM

The video erroneously used a two-year-old report about fisherfolk working in the disputed waters, also called Bajo de Masinloc, and incorrectly presented it as recent.

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Liar

By Ellen T. Tordesillas | May 16, 2021 5:24 PM

No, the jet ski boast was not a joke. It was a lie.

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Filipino diplomat DID NOT call Carpio et al ‘China’s lapdog’

By VERA Files | May 13, 2021 2:31 PM

Rosario Manalo, Philippine expert to the UN’s CEDAW, has made no such claim.

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