Archive - PHL Vote 2022

Vice President Leni Robredo has agreed to join a live multi-media interview, contrary to a claim made in a video that spurred the hashtag #LeniDuwag. The assertion that she backed out of the interview over DZRH needs context. The interview was actually moved to February 2.

Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez has belied the claims.

Ferdinand Marcos, the dictator, loved writing diary entries.

Representatives from several prominent academic institutions, media and civil society organizations emphasized the significance of fact-checking in fighting mis- and disinformation, especially with the upcoming May 2022 elections.

It seems too easy for the camp of presidential candidate Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. to accuse multiaward-winning broadcast journalist Jessica Soho of being "biased against the Marcoses." Many surmise that this is because Soho is known to ask tough questions begging to be answered.

There are many good things going for the three-hour GMA 7’s Jessica Soho Presidential Interviews aired Saturday night.

Neither has she encouraged the former senator to "file a case" against oligarchs "destroying his name and reputation."

This year, Tsek.ph expanded its membership in academe and media and now includes fact-checkers from civil society and multisectoral organizations.

​ If you’ve been following the political developments in the United States since 2016 - or even longer before that - then the latest tugs of war between Donald Trump and the Biden Administration should be keeping you riveted.

Its shutdown almost two years ago did not prevent ABS-CBN from reviving Halalan, an election coverage coalition of various universities, election watchdogs, the public and private sector, and media groups that it had been doing in the past elections, for the May 2022 elections.

Actor Robin Padilla assails political dynasties, yet he endorsed the candidacies of the Duterte children.

This is false. An investigation into the alleged hacking is still in progress.

When one aspires to be president of the country, it is correct to assume that one must submit one’s self to public scrutiny. A presidential candidate is fair game and running for chief executive must be treated as a job interview before the sovereign people.

When the first Ferdinand Marcos was ousted from power almost a month short of forty years today, the Philippines could have been plunged into civil war.

So many things were not quite right in the Manila Bulletin news report about the alleged hacking of the Commission on Election (Comelec) website.

Our collective attention is being called by the blogger who goes by the Twitter handle of Miyako Izabel (“writer and independent publisher, political blogger and social media activist, existentialist and public anthropologist, Filipino and citizen of the world”).

The runaway winner in the surveys for preferred presidential candidates in the May elections has become the butt of jokes in the past few days because of his absence in last Friday's preliminary conference on a disqualification case against him at the Commission on Elections (Comelec).

Robredo answered 14 out of 18 questions correctly.

Having served a term each for various elective positions does not absolve presidential aspirant and former senator Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos from the penalty of perpetual disqualification from running for public office with the finality of his 1997 tax evasion conviction, according to retired Supreme Court (SC) senior associate justice Antonio Carpio. The former magistrate made the declaration in a 1Sambayan online forum on Jan. 6.

​ Latest election surveys showed that if elections were held today, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. would be the 17th president of the Republic of the Philippines.

I am told, over and over, that one of the reasons why Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr is so high up in the polls is because millions of Filipinos have been made to believe in the “Marcos gold”.

There was no such filing, but several netizens believed otherwise and failed to recognize that the post was satire.