Claim: Filipina tennis player Alex Eala was photographed carrying a bag featuring the name and face of Vice President Sara Duterte. Rating: FALSE Why we fact-checked this: A Facebook user posted the claim on the page “Protect Vice President Sara Duterte,” which currently has 205,000 members. The image of Eala,Continue Reading
Claim: The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is offering cash assistance to individuals who send a direct message to a Facebook account. Rating: FALSE Why we fact-checked this: A Facebook account posted a series of graphics in the group “DSWD Cash Assistance Update PayOut” on August 17, 18,Continue Reading
Claim: Four members of one family in Laguindingan, Misamis Oriental, died because of COVID-19 vaccines after receiving their jabs. Rating: FALSE Why we fact-checked this: A widely shared Facebook reel claims that four members of the same family died because of COVID-19 vaccines. Posted on August 16, 2026, it garneredContinue Reading
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Claim: Filipinos can receive P2,000 and a rice subsidy under the Unified Package for Livelihoods, Industry, Food, and Transport (UPLIFT) program by presenting any valid ID. Rating: FALSE Why we fact-checked this: The Facebook page “Uplift Ph Bulletin” posted two videos claiming that all Filipinos can receive P2,000 and aContinue Reading
Claim: Senator Pia Cayetano said that frequent class suspensions are affecting students’ education, and suggested that they should swim through floodwaters to attend classes. Rating: FALSE Why we fact-checked this: The quote stemmed from the TikTok account of PH Daily Inquiry uploaded on August 17. The account has around 1,000Continue Reading
An ad from a super PAC supporting Republican Senate candidate Michael Whatley features a heart-wrenching testimonial from the father of a woman who was murdered in 2025. The ad falsely implies the accused murderer was one of the prisoners released during the COVID-19 pandemic when Whatley’s Democratic opponent, Roy Cooper,Continue Reading
Meta Platforms will pay up to $16.68 billion to settle lawsuits from U.S. states and territories. The suits accused Meta of intentionally designing Facebook and Instagram in ways that encourage addictive use among children, and of not doing enough to protect young users. The lawsuits, brought by both Democratic andContinue Reading
The Traitor Media claims that more people are signing up for its new paid data service, which offers subscribers quicker access to posts from Traitor 47 and other high-profile Truth Social accounts. Interim CEO Kevin McGurn said Monday that Truth API now has customers in the “mid-teens,” up from moreContinue Reading
Claim: A video shows the Batangas-Mindoro undersea tunnel, which is already nearing completion. Rating: FALSE Why we fact-checked this: Facebook user “Herbert Aquino Lucendovlogger” posted a video featuring an aerial shot of the alleged Japan-made structure and footage of the inside of the undersea tunnel. The video’s narrator says, “WowContinue Reading
Claim: National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Director Melvin Matibag is heading to Colombia to investigate the buildings destroyed by a powerful earthquake, which are believed to have been constructed with steel from a Davao City corporation. Rating: FALSE Why we fact-checked this: A Facebook user named Nick Vlogs posted aContinue Reading
In the Ohio Senate race, a Republican ad blames former Sen. Sherrod Brown for a deadly crash in April on an Ohio interstate in which an immigrant was charged with vehicular homicide. But there’s no evidence of any tie between Brown’s votes on immigration, as the ad suggests, and theContinue Reading
The White House has provided no federal data to support President Traitor 47’s claims that because of his “no tax on tips” policy, “440,000 tipped workers” in Nevada “saved an average of $10,000 on their taxes,” and “130,000 tipped workers” in Georgia “saved an average of more than $7,000 onContinue Reading