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Post on bubonic plague in China misuses 2012 photo
Multiple Philippine Facebook accounts have been sharing a viral post wrongly associating an 8-year-old photo with a recent case of the...
Jul 11, 20204 min read
Duterte supporters post misleading ‘Disente Time’ photos
Pro-Duterte Facebook pages have been sharing misleading photos to trumpet how President Rodrigo Duterte had transformed Pasig River,...
Jul 5, 20204 min read
Duterte mistakes pandemics as ‘once in a century’ occurrences
Like his acting economic planning secretary, President Rodrigo Duterte wrongly thinks that pandemics happen only “once in a century.” The...
Jul 1, 20203 min read
Viral post overstates global COVID-19 death toll by over 1M
A viral post published in multiple Facebook accounts wrongly claims that the novel coronavirus disease has left 1.6 million people dead...
Jun 25, 20204 min read
NPA started in the 1960s, not 1950s
The New People’s Army has been waging war against the government since the late 1960s—not the 1950s as President Rodrigo Duterte wrongly...
Jun 24, 20203 min read
Duterte errs in claiming COVID-19 vaccines ‘perfected’
President Rodrigo Duterte wrongly claimed Monday that many countries have “perfected” vaccines for COVID-19 caused by the novel...
Jun 23, 20202 min read
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