VERA FILES FACT CHECK YEARENDER: Six most repeated lies creeping into public sphere in 2022
What happens when public officials, media outlets and online users keep repeating false statements?
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Scorecard: Six years of fact checking Duterte
The country’s former top public official was VERA Files’ most fact-checked personality since 2016. He was named the “most fact-checked figure” in 2018 and the top purveyor of disinformation on COVID-19 among government officials in 2020.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK YEARENDER: YouTube disinformation mas notorious at naka-network sa Facebook noong 2021
Ngayong taon, naging mas kitang-kita ang isang nakababahalang trend sa lokal na disinformation mula sa mga YouTube channel. Isang video sa YouTube lang ang kailangan na ma-upload sa mga social media channel upang maging isang matinding tagapagkalat ng misinformation.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK YEARENDER: YouTube disinformation more notorious and networked on Facebook in 2021
This year, a worrisome trend in local disinformation from YouTube channels became more prominent. It takes only one YouTube video uploaded across social media channels to be a super-spreader of misinformation.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK YEARENDER: Ang mga pinakamalaking flip-flop ni Duterte sa taong 2021
Sa isang talumpati noong Agosto, sinabi mismo ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte na ang mga pampublikong opisyal ay “inuutusan [sa pamamagitan ng kanilang sinumpaang katungkulan] na magsabi ng totoo … kahit na wasakin sila ng katotohanan.” Ngunit ano ang mangyayari kapag nagsabi ang pangulo ng isang bagay ngayon at pagkatapos ay iniba ang sinabi, at pagkatapos ay iniba pa ulit sa sumunod na pagkakataon?
VERA FILES FACT CHECK YEARENDER: Duterte’s biggest flip-flops in 2021
President Rodrigo Duterte himself said in a speech in August that public officials are “mandated [by their oath of office] to tell the truth … even if the truth leaves [them] in ruins.” But what happens when the president says one thing today and then another, and then another the next time?
VERA FILES YEARENDER: Red-tagging online umarangkada sa pagpapatupad ng Anti-Terror Law sa 2020
Sa pag-usbong ng mga talakayan at ng tuluyang pagpapatupad ngayong taon ng Republic Act No. 11479 o Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA), sunud-sunod na mga personalidad ang pinintahan sa iisang kulay: Pula.
VERA FILES YEARENDER: Red-tagging online ramps up as Anti-Terror Law takes effect in 2020
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.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK YEARENDER: Ang dalawang mukha ng COVID-19 lockdown sa Pilipinas
Sa higit siyam na buwan ng community quarantine sa bansa, binalaan, binigyan ng mga tiket, at inaresto ng mga tagapagpatupad ng batas ang may 598,000 katao, na tinawag nilang "pasaway," dahil sa umano'y paglabag sa quarantine at health protocols na ipinag-utos upang mapigilan ang pagkalat ng coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK YEARENDER: The two faces of COVID-19 lockdown in the Philippines
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.