“Philstar.com is a communist 'propaganda machine”
Lorraine Badoy
Former presidential communications undersecretary. In SMNI live broadcast. Claim dated 3 May 2023.
FactRakers rated thisFALSE
What FactRakers found
Reporting on deaths of communist leaders doesn't make an organization like Philstar.com a mouthpiece of the communist movement. Other media outlets ran the same report
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Lorraine Badoy (Former presidential communications undersecretary) made this claim around 3 May 2023. FactRakers (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 10 May 2023, 7 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
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.
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