“Photo of the Manila Bay shoreline shows that the entire stretch from the fence of the US Embassy-Manila up to the Manila Yacht Club breakwater is now covered with crushed dolomite.”
What Vera Files found
The photo is manipulated and has been debunked several times by fact-checkers. The original photo, posted Sept. 17, 2020 by a netizen, showed that the actual dolomite beachfront was less than half the width and length of what was shown in the manipulated image.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Jay Sonza made this claim around 31 January 2021. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 3 February 2021, 3 days later. Its rating was “Fake”.
Jay Sonza has 16 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 11 of them false or fake, 5 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- Saved copy of the posthttps://archive.is/zPKmD
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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.