“The Department of Interior and Local Government, Department of Justice, and the Philippine National Police have said there were no instructions to profile the organizers of community pantries.”
What Vera Files found
Top officials of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), including National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon, Communications Undersecretary Lorraine Badoy and Southern Luzon Command chief, Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr., said they were “checking” the background of organizers because leftists groups exploit the initiatives for “propaganda” against the government’s COVID-19 response.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Department of Interior and Local Government, Department of Justice, Philippine National Police made this claim around 20 April 2021. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 28 April 2021, 8 days later. Its rating was “Flip-flop”.
Where the claim appeared
- dilg.gov.phhttps://dilg.gov.ph/news/Statement-of-the-Department-of-the-Interior-and-Local-Government…
- pnp.gov.phhttps://pnp.gov.ph/index.php/news-and-information/4221-police-general-debold-m-sinas-chie…
- philstar.comhttps://www.philstar.com/headlines/2021/04/20/2092508/justice-chief-community-pantry-orga…
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.