Multiple Facebook posts shared repeatedly in early January 2021 claim Filipino pool champion Efren Reyes had died at the age of 65. The claim is false: in response to the hoax reports, Reyes told AFP on January 19, 2021 that he was "still alive". The
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Liste→ Doctored news graphic falsely claims Filipino official branded poor people a ‘burden’ in coronavirus vaccination drive
A photo repeatedly shared on Facebook purports to show a news graphic containing genuine remarks by a Philippine presidential spokesperson that poor people are a “burden” on the government's coronavirus vaccination efforts. The claim is false: the
Liste→ Misleading viral video claims Filipino tycoon ‘shamed’ Philippine Vice President in interview
A video viewed hundreds of thousands of times in multiple posts on Facebook and YouTube purports to show Filipino tycoon Fernando Zobel de Ayala "shaming" Vice President Leni Robredo in an interview. The claim is misleading: the video shows the busin
Liste→ Hoax report circulates that Filipino police officer was released after double murder charge
Multiple blog posts have shared a video they claim shows a Filipino police officer was "released" after being charged with double murder in December 2020. The claim is false: the video in fact shows a news report about an unrelated case. Police i
Liste→ This image includes a fabricated anti-Duterte quote, falsely attributed to a Filipino politician
An image has been shared repeatedly in multiple Facebook posts that purports to show remarks by a Filipino politician in which he appears to criticise Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. The claim is false; the image has been digitally altered
Liste→ Doctored video shared alongside false claim that Filipino official ‘beat man for violating coronavirus restrictions’
A video has been viewed thousands of times in multiple YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and blog posts alongside a claim it shows a Filipino official beating a man after he violated coronavirus restrictions. The claim is false: the clip has been doctored t
Liste→ This photo of a Filipino celebrity has been been doctored — the original does not show a message about communists
A photo has been repeatedly shared in multiple posts on Facebook alongside a claim it shows a Filipino celebrity denouncing the Communist Party of the Philippines. The claim is false; the photo of the celebrity has been doctored from an earlier image t
Fact-Checking – Poynter→ How a team led by a journalist is fighting coronavirus misinformation in the Filipino community
Last year, Leezel Tanglao traveled to the Philippines as part of an immersion program from the Filipino Young Leaders Program, a nonprofit organization of leaders that aims to advance the Southeast Asian country and the Filipino community. Tanglao, a H
Fact-Checking – Poynter→ How a team led by a journalist is fighting coronavirus misinformation in the Filipino community
Last year, Leezel Tanglao traveled to the Philippines as part of an immersion program from the Filipino Young Leaders Program, a nonprofit organization of leaders that aims to advance the Southeast Asian country and the Filipino community. Tanglao, a H
Liste→ Misleading claim circulates that World Bank and IMF were established by former dictator Ferdinand Marcos and Filipino nationalist
Multiple posts shared repeatedly on Facebook claim the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) were established by former dictator Ferdinand Marcos and Filipino nationalist Jose Rizal. The claim is misleading; the World Bank and the IMF we
Liste→ This photo has circulated in reports about a Filipino man burning a Malaysian flag in a protest
A picture has been shared hundreds of times on multiple posts on Facebook alongside a claim it shows a Malaysian Chinese man burning a Malaysian flag. The claim is false; the photo has circulated in reports about a Filipino man burning a Malaysian flag
Fact-Checking – Poynter→ Fact-checkers stand by Maria Ressa, Santos Jr. and Rappler in the wake of Filipino court’s verdict
Fact-checkers responded with a mix of rage and resolve to the guilty verdict given to Maria Ressa, Rappler’s CEO and executive director, and former researcher-writer Rey Santos Jr., in a cyber libel case that threatens press freedom in Asia. Sinc
Liste→ Filipino Facebook page behind doctored Kendall Jenner Black Lives Matter photo
Amid a wave of US protests over racism and police violence against African Americans, a photo of US model Kendall Jenner holding a Black Lives Matter sign caused doubt and mockery as online users pointed out an obvious edit to the image. The picture, w
Politifact Truth-O-Meter→ The Manila Times – Claims Filipino journalists are trying to oust President Rodrigo Duterte lack evidence
The Truth-o-Meter says: False | Claims Filipino journalists are trying to oust President Rodrigo Duterte lack evidence On April 22, the Manila Times, a newspaper in the Philippines, published a story that claimed there’s a plot to discredit t
Liste→ This video shows a Filipina flight attendant on board a Cebu Pacific plane in 2020
A video has been viewed tens of thousands of times on Facebook, YouTube and TikTok alongside a claim that it shows a flight attendant crying on board Indonesia’s Sriwijaya Air Flight SJ 182 shortly before the aircraft crashed into the Java Sea in Ja
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Dominion Software Is NOT Developed by Engineers from Venezuela And Votes Are NOT Sent to Servers in Spain
Is Dominion Voting Systems software developed by engineers from Venezuela and were votes sent to servers in Spain? No, that's not true. Government and independent election technology experts confirm what Dominion's spokesperson says: Domi
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Pictures Do NOT Show The Family Of A Record-Setting Fertile Woman
Did a woman in the 1700s give birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets (a total of 69 children) in just 40 years, with the same man fathering all the children? And is this a photo of the very large f
Liste→ This old photo shows comedian Vic Sotto carrying his daughter, not his wife Pauleen Luna
An old photo has been shared tens of thousands of times in multiple Facebook posts that claim it shows Filipino comedian Vic Sotto carrying a child who would grow up to be his wife, fellow celebrity Pauleen Luna. The photo was shared side-by-side with
Liste→ Fresh false claims about COVID-19 vaccine and 5G technology spread online in the Philippines
Multiple Facebook posts shared thousands of times by Filipino Facebook users in June 2020 make several false claims about a future vaccine for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. The posts also make claims about a link between a p
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Italy’s President NOT Caught On Camera Crying Over, and Regretting, Nation’s COVID-19 Response
Was Italy's president shown on camera in a video crying over the toll that COVID-19 has taken on that country and decrying the lack of preparedness in the early stages of the coronavirus spread? No, that's not true. The video still shown in a
Lead Stories→ Fake News: 20 Million Chinese Did NOT Convert To Islam, And It Was NOT Proven That Coronavirus Epidemic Did Not Afflict Muslims
Did 20 million Chinese people convert to Islam after it was proven that the coronavirus epidemic did not afflict Muslims? No, that's not true: The video does not appear to show Chinese people but rather Filipino men. They are heard speaking a
Lead Stories→ Fake News: Man Knocked Down by Vehicle in Toronto NOT Identified As Rugby Union coach Ben Ryan (or Lawrence Sichalwe or Sanath Jayasuriya or Kenneth Duremdes)
Was a man knocked down by a vehicle in Toronto identified as Rugby Union coach Ben Ryan or Lawrence Sichalwe or Sanath Jayasuriya or Kenneth Duremdes? And did he later die in hospital? No, that's not true: a fake news site that appears to be r
Snopes→ US Returns 3 Disputed Bells Taken from Philippines in 1901
Americans took the church bells as spoils of war that Filipinos would demand for decades to be handed back.