“Jose Maria "Joma" Sison, founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines, has been dead.”
What Vera Files found
“Buhay pa ako (I am still alive),” Sison emailed to VERA Files Fact Check on Feb. 27, two days after Badoy published her spurious post. Sison even served as a guest speaker in an online forum that was streamed live on Facebook on Feb. 26.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Lorraine Marie Badoy made this claim around 25 February 2022. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 2 March 2022, 5 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Lorraine Marie Badoy has 7 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 7 of them false or fake, 0 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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Related checks
- Vera Files: Hindi totoo“Si Jose Maria "Joma" Sison, founder ng Communist Party of the Philippines, ay patay na.”