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“Ang Pilipinas ay may "napakamalayang media" kumpara sa Singapore, Malaysia at Vietnam.”
MIgz Zubiri Claim dated 7 Nov 2022.
Vera Files rated thisHindi totoo

What Vera Files found

Ang kalayaan sa pamamahayag sa Pilipinas ay hindi mas maayos kaysa sa Singapore at Malaysia, ayon sa World Press Freedom Index ng Reporters Without Borders (RSF) na nakabase sa Paris. Batay sa 2022 ranking ng international media freedom watchdog, ang Pilipinas ay ika-147 sa 180 bansa habang ang Malaysia ay nasa ika-113 at Singapore, ika-139. Mas mababa ang ranggo ng Vietnam kaysa sa tatlong bansa sa ika-174.

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In short

MIgz Zubiri made this claim around 7 November 2022. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 14 November 2022, 7 days later. Its rating was “Hindi totoo”.

MIgz Zubiri has 4 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 3 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 0 true.

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