“The U.S. went on its knees and begged President Rodrigo Duterte to restore the Visiting Forces Agreement”
Vera Files rated this: False
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“President Rodrigo Duterte said ABS-CBN still owes the government billions in taxes”
Vera Files rated this: Needs Context
“President Rodrigo Duterte is changing the name of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA)”
Vera Files rated this: False
“ABS-CBN cheated government in 'billions' in taxes”
FactRakers rated this: FALSE
FactRakers says: The Bureau of Internal Revenue has said ABS-CBN pay taxes regularly in a lawful manner
“Senate President Tito Sotto is running against President Rodrigo Duterte in the vice presidential race in 2022”
Vera Files rated this: False
“President Rodrigo Duterte went to the wake of former President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III”
Vera Files rated this: Fake
“Photo showing trash spilling over from Manila bay to the baywalk was taken before the term of President Rodrigo Duterte”
Vera Files rated this: Misleading
“ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda will be sent to prison for a false accusation against President Rodrigo Duterte”
Vera Files rated this: False
“President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the imprisonment of Manila Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo over sexual harassment charges”
Vera Files rated this: Fake
“With a 91% approval rating, President Rodrigo Duterte is the best compared to world leaders from Germany, Canada, Italy, Russia, India, the US, the UK, France and Japan”
Vera Files rated this: Misleading
“President Rodrigo Duterte disclosed that Sen. Manny Pacquiao has a debt of a billion pesos”
Vera Files rated this: False
“President Rodrigo Duterte fulfilled his promise to go to the South China Sea via jet ski and wave the Philippine flag”
Vera Files rated this: False
“ABS-CBN published a fake report about fishermen expressing disappointment in President Rodrigo Duterte.”
Vera Files rated this: False
“Manny Pacquiao has been removed by President Rodrigo Duterte from PDP-Laban”
Vera Files rated this: False
“Former senator Antonio "Sonny" Trillanes paid a blogger to discredit President Rodrigo Duterte”
Vera Files rated this: False
“President Rodrigo Duterte heeds the advise of some Cabinet members that "nothing good" would come out of a debate with retired Supreme Court associate justice Antonio Carpio and, it would be a "demotion" for a sitting president to engage in a debate with an "ordinary lawyer.”
Vera Files rated this: Flip-flop
Vera Files says: It was Duterte himself who dared Carpio to a debate considering that they "are both lawyers."
“President Rodrigo Duterte says the Philippines' historic arbitral win in July 2016 against China on the South China Sea dispute is "just a (piece of) paper" that he would "throw into the wastebasket.”
Vera Files rated this: Flip-flop
Vera Files says: In his speech at the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly in September 2020, Duterte "firmly reject(ed)" attempts to "undermine" the ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration. He declared that the arbi…
“President Rodrigo Duterte has decided to “blow up” (pasabugin) the country's ties with China over the West Philippine Sea issue”
Vera Files rated this: False
“President Rodrigo Duterte said former president Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III and retired Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonio Carpio sold the West Philippine Sea to China”
Vera Files rated this: Misleading
“President Rodrigo Duterte has removed Manny Pacquiao from his position as president of PDP Laban”
Vera Files rated this: False