VERA FILES FACT CHECK: FB post FALSELY claims Lacson didn’t serve under executive branch
Contrary to what one Facebook post claimed, presidential candidate and senator Ping Lacson held various positions under the government’s executive branch.
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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Robredo DID NOT threaten chaos if she loses, has NO alliance with NPA
The claims were based on the conjectures by a reporter in soliciting a reaction from three presidential candidates.
Yes, Yorme, it’s about character
He probably thought he was already close to the presidency if he got the endorsement of 1Sambayan, until Robredo gave in to calls for her to run for higher office.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Claim that CPP founder Joma Sison ‘advises’ Robredo presidential campaign has no basis
In an email to VERA Files Fact Check, Sison said he has neither been advising Robredo nor consulting with her spokesperson Barry Gutierrez.
Nothing less than a people’s campaign
The show of force for Vice President Leni Robredo on Macapagal Avenue in Pasay City on April 23 amply demonstrated her camp’s strength of purpose, and the burgeoning numbers — per estimates, 412,000 at the site and 171,000 on livestream (although often faltering by dint of a dropping internet signal) — foreshadowed a pitched battle with the survey front-runner Ferdinand Marcos Jr. at the polls.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Pro-Uniteam FB pages spread FAKE photo of Robredo’s Cebu rally
FB pages supporting Bongbong Marcos and Sara Duterte-Carpio published an edited image to claim that a million people gathered at Robredo’s Cebu grand rally.
Mammoth crowd parties with Leni; VP urges sustained fight vs ‘fake news’
Fighting “fake news” should never stop, however exhausting it may be, the vice president said.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Robredo did NOT call Barzaga family ‘traitors’
Robredo never referred to the Barzaga family as traitors or idiots.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Exit poll on overseas voting in 5 countries UNOFFICIAL
Exit poll results like the one currently circulating online should not be considered a reliable source to establish a trend in the outcome of elections.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Moreno’s appointment as new Marcos spox is SATIRE
Despite the hashtags #SatireNews and #parody indicated in the post, some netizens believed the story was true.