VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Netizens revive FALSE warning of SM MOA collapse
Netizens reshared a false chain message warning people against going to SM Mall of Asia.
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When is the extradition of Apollo Quiboloy to the US?
God, in most religious iconographies, is said to be benevolent – perfectly good and charitably kind. As such, god cannot be malevolent – displaying ill will and having an evil influence. Which of these two is Apollo Quiboloy, the self-proclaimed “appointed son of god”?
The ‘Bato’ in the Senate is not hard as rock
What the drug war showed was his "pusong bato" against persons merely suspected of involvement in illegal drugs but were summarily killed without any semblance of due process.
Geraldine Javier: Nature in art
Javier’s A Tree is Not a Forest exhibit is her ode to nature and its complexity, informed by naturalists who fought for plants and animals to be known and respected, in vain.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Video on South Korea giving a submarine to Philippine Navy MISLEADS
The South Korean government is only set to give a small warship called a corvette, not a submarine, to the Philippines.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: TikTok video on death of 39 babies in Gaza FALSE
Two premature babies, not 39, died in Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital on Nov. 11, 2023.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Solar superstorm causing ‘internet apocalypse’ has NO BASIS
Videos circulating on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok are claiming that a solar superstorm would cause a global internet outage for months. This is baseless.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: BARMM official DID NOT say ‘Christians are unwelcome in Marawi’
BARMM Interior Minister Naguib Sinarimbo did not say Christians have no place in Marawi.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marcoleta did NOT replace Romualdez as Speaker
A YouTube video is falsely claiming that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has appointed SAGIP Party-list Rep. Rodante Marcoleta as House speaker to replace Martin Romualdez.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Video shows 2013 storm surge, NOT tsunami after most recent Mindanao quake
A Facebook page uploaded a 10-year-old clip of a storm surge falsely passing it off as a tsunami after the magnitude 7.4 quake that recently jolted parts of Mindanao.
