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“A series of seven photos showed health workers outside the Gat Andres Bonifacio Memorial Medical Center in Tondo, Manila on Aug. 14, 2021.”

Vera Files says: At least two of the seven photos in the edited Facebook post of The Manila Times in its official page and on its website were captured at the Manila COVID-19 Field Hospital.

“Some people have died as an effect of COVID-19 vaccines”

“COVID-19 vaccines are being to reduce the Filipino population.”

“Philippine media do not report on Build, Build, Build projects.”

“Rodrigo Duterte has approved the renaming of NAIA (Ninoy Aquino International Airport) to MIA (Manila International Airport)”

“DSWD is going house-to-house to distribute P10,000 as social aid to Filipinos”

“Sa pamamagitan ng Republic Act No. 10699 na pinagtibay noong 2015 sa panahon ni Pangulong Benigno Aquino III, nagbigay ng tax exemption ang Kongreso sa mga napanalunan ng mga pambansang atleta.”

Vera Files says: Ang Republic Act No. 7549, na pinagtibay noong Mayo 22, 1992, sa panunungkulan ng yumaong Pangulong Corazon C. Aquino, ang nag exempt sa pagbabayad ng buwis sa “lahat ng mga premyo at parangal” na ipinagkaloob sa mga at…

“Through Republic Act No. 10699 enacted in 2015 during the term of then President Benigno Aquino III, Congress granted tax exemption on winnings of national athletes.”

Vera Files says: It is Republic Act No. 7549, enacted on May 22, 1992 during the term of the late President Corazon C. Aquino, that exempts from income tax payments “all prizes and awards” granted to athletes participating in local or i…

“Videos published in July show 79 people in the U.K. got blood clots after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine of AstraZeneca”

“Ang suporta para sa kilusang komunista ay magpapatuloy na mababawasan sa mga susunod na buwan ... Tulad ng ilang dekadang paghihimagsik ng Moro sa Mindanao, tiyak na tatapusin din natin ang armadong pakikibaka ng mga komunista.”

Vera Files says: Sa nakaraang limang taon ng kanyang pagkapangulo, nagsimula si Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte sa pagsisikap na makipag-usap ng kapayapaan sa Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) at ang armadong grupo nito, ang New People…

“Support for the communist movement will continue to erode in the next few months... Like the decades-old Moro rebellion in Mindanao, we also bring an end to the armed struggle of the communists once and for all.”

Vera Files says: In the past five years of his presidency, President Duterte went from trying to talk peace with the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing, the New People’s Army, to declaring an all-out war with the move…

“Ang International Criminal Court ay "puno ng mga puti.”

Vera Files says: Sampu sa 18 hukom sa ICC ay mula sa mga bansang Africa (4), Latin America at Caribbean (4), at Asia-Pacific (2). Walong iba pa ay mula sa Western at Eastern Europe at iba pang groups of states.

“Bigayan lang kami. Kaya pasalamatan natin [ang U.S.] ... at binigyan ko na sila ng konsesyon. Isinaalang-alang ko ang pagpapatuloy ng ... ang Visiting Forces Agreement.”

Vera Files says: Noong unang bahagi ng 2020, matatag na sinabi ni Duterte sa isang talumpati na "hindi niya tinatalikuran ang [pag termina ng] VFA," at sa isa pa, sinabing ang bansa ay "walang karapatan na maging isang republika" kung h…

“Joma Sison endorsed the tandem of Leni Robredo and Isko Moreno for the 2022 elections”

“The International Criminal Court is "full of white people.”

Vera Files says: Ten of the 18 judges in the ICC are from African (4), Latin American and Caribbean (4), and Asia-Pacific (2) countries. Eight others are from Western and Eastern European and other groups of states.

“The P10-million allotment for Olympic gold medalists in the Philippines was created under Duterte”

“We just give and take. So let's thank [the U.S.] ... and I already gave them a concession. I considered the continuance of ... the Visiting Forces Agreement.”

Vera Files says: In early 2020, Duterte firmly stated in one speech that he was "not reneging on the VFA," and in another, saying the country had "no business being a republic" if it could not survive without the U.S. After notifying th…

“A [study] has revealed that children are “healthier” if they are unvaccinated.”

“Bongbong Marcos confirmed he will run for president in 2022”

“ABS-CBN is cheating the government by the billions of pesos in taxes.”

Vera Files says: Officials from the Bureau of Internal Revenue have cleared the media network of tax deficiencies during congressional hearings on the ABS-CBN franchise bill in early 2020.