“NICA chief Alex Monteagudo shares inaccurate and unsubstantiated Facebook post that tags COURAGE and SENADO as fronts of the communist movement. The shared post says four opposition senators should stop defending COURAGE that has been operating for 52 years as a front organization of the CPP-NPA-NDF.”
What Vera Files found
COURAGE, having been founded in May 1986, has been around for 35 years, not 52 as the post shared by the NICA director general Alex Monteagudo claimed. It was the CPP that was established more than 52 years ago, in December 1968. On the allegation that four opposition senators have been defending COURAGE for the longest time, VERA Files did not find any online statements to substantiate the accusation. What Senators Franklin Drilon, Risa Hontiveros, Leila De Lima and Francis Pangilinan -- who...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Relissa Lucena, NICA chief Alex Monteagudo made this claim around 7 April 2021. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 2 May 2021, 25 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/relissa.lucena/posts/423626112638662
- Saved copy of the posthttps://perma.cc/3GSP-Z7CZ
Links recorded by Vera Files. Some posts may have been deleted since.
This check was done by Vera Files, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.