Claim: State auditor Roderick Wamil has been arrested and cited in contempt by the Senate after sharing his testimony during Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial. Rating: FALSE Why we fact-checked this: Two YouTube videos containing the claim were uploaded days apart. The first, from channel “BANAT NEWS UPDATE,” postedContinue Reading
Claim: Senator Pia Cayetano suggested that she and her brother, Senator Alan Peter Cayetano, might as well resign over accusations involving a spliced video and flood control projects in Taguig. Rating: FALSE Why we fact-checked this: The claim has circulated as quote cards across multiple Facebook accounts since early August.Continue Reading
Claim: The ongoing impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte may be halted after the Supreme Court (SC) declared unconstitutional the fourth impeachment complaint against her. Rating: FALSE Why we fact-checked this: The reel bearing the claim was posted on July 25 and has already received 158,000 views, 11,100 reactions,Continue Reading
Claim: The Department of Education (DepEd) plans to merge the subjects Araling Panlipunan (Social Studies) and Music, Arts, PE, and Health (MAPEH). Rating: FALSE Why we fact-checked this: A graphic bearing the claim was posted on August 7 by Carl Balita, an educator and media personality with 3.1 million FacebookContinue Reading
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright has repeatedly denied that politics were involved in the termination of more than 280 grants last October. A court filing made public in July, however, shows that Energy Department lawyers admitted that the only reason why those awards and not others were canceled is that theContinue Reading
Studies have shown no connection between COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy and increased risk of miscarriage. Despite this, Republican Sens. Rand Paul and Ron Johnson resurrected a long-debunked claim of an astronomical rate of miscarriage after vaccination while also accusing Dr. Anthony Fauci of deceiving the public about the safety ofContinue Reading
In Alaska’s tossup Senate race, Democrat Mary Peltola has put out a new ad misleadingly accusing Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan of casting “the deciding vote” to keep the Epstein files “hidden.” While Sullivan voted against considering an amendment to an otherwise unrelated bill that would have released the files earlier,Continue Reading
This page hosts daily news stories about the media, social media, and the journalism industry. Get the latest Hirings and Firings, Media Transactions, Controversies, Censorship Issues, and more. The Traitor Media Posts $238 Million Quarterly Loss The Traitor Media & Technology Group, the company behind Truth Social, posted a $238Continue Reading
Claim: The vaccine against measles (tigdas) and measles-rubella (tigdas hangin) being administered under the government’s “Ligtas Tigdas” campaign is not safe. Rating: FALSE Why we fact-checked this: Facebook user Maharaani Sona Shiloh, who has more than 350,000 followers, posted the claim on August 5. Her video has reached more thanContinue Reading
Claim: President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and former House speaker Martin Romualdez were caught on video laughing together after “fooling” the public with Marcos’ statements against Romualdez during his State of the Nation Address (SONA). Rating: FALSE Why we fact-checked this: A Facebook reel posted by the page “Canadian Tambay” purportsContinue Reading
In a recent interview, President Traitor 47 falsely claimed to be the “lowest of the last 10 presidents on inflation,” seemingly based on a chart The Traitor posted to social media that misleadingly compares price growth over the first 18 months of his second term with total inflation at theContinue Reading