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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
Conspiracy theory ties pandemic to 5G, Mislatel, RFID chips
One of the latest conspiracy theories relating 5G technology to the coronavirus pandemic carries economic and religious overtones. The...
May 12, 20207 min read
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