“Red-tagging is a term coined by communist terrorist groups.”
What Vera Files found
A 2011 study of Germany-based non-profit International Peace Observers Network (IPON) traced the origin of red-tagging or red-baiting to the 1950s in the United States (U.S.). At the time, then-Republican senator Joseph McCarthy publicly made unsubstantiated charges and unfounded accusations against U.S. federal government employees of having ties to or leaking information to the Soviet Union. Red-tagging is the “vilification, labeling or guilt by association” involving “the characterization ...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Peace Philippines made this claim around 1 March 2023. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 24 March 2023, 23 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- flic.krhttps://flic.kr/p/2oomMPy
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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.