“Jonathan De Santos, former editor of Philstar.com, is an urban operative of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army-National Democratic Front.”
What Vera Files found
Lorraine Badoy, a former undersecretary at the Presidential Communications Office and a spokesperson at the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict, did not present any proof that Jonathan De Santos has links to the CPP-NPA-NDF. De Santos, who had resigned from Philstar.com, is currently the chairperson of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines. He said he had nothing to do with the writing and publication of an Aug. 26 news article in the Philippine Star that ...
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In short
Lorraine Badoy (SMNI host) made this claim around 26 August 2023. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 30 August 2023, 4 days later. Its rating was “Baseless”.
Lorraine Badoy has 10 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 6 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
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