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Deaths from ‘murder’ hornet stings in US, elsewhere a hoax
A Facebook user has been riding on reports of recent sightings of the Asian giant hornet in the United States to fan fears of another...
May 28, 20206 min read
COVID-19 falsely linked to bacteria
A tabloid and Facebook groups in the Philippines have been sharing a false claim that Italy’s health ministry has discovered that...
May 25, 20206 min read
Duque’s trail of COVID-19 gaffes revisited
Health Secretary Francisco Duque has stirred a hornet’s nest when he claimed at a Senate hearing Wednesday that the Philippines was going...
May 21, 20207 min read
Children are victims, too, of coronavirus disinfodemic
The outbreak of disinformation accompanying the COVID-19 pandemic spares no one, not even children. Disinformation players out for social...
May 20, 20204 min read
Sugar won’t cure COVID-19, can do harm when taken in excess
A spoonful of sugar may help the medicine go down, but sugar, especially cups of it, won't make COVID-19 go away. Several studies, in...
May 19, 20204 min read
2013 media safety training photo misused to red-tag journalist
A 7-year-old photo of the country’s first all-women safety training for journalists in Mindanao has been misused by a pro-military...
May 14, 20203 min read
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