Archive - PHL Vote 2022 Year all all 2022 2021 2020 Items per page 30 12 18 24 30 PHL Vote 2022 The Lacson-Sotto campaign: Engaging with the electorate They don’t do motorcades or rallies with thousands of people in attendance. Instead, presidential candidate Panfilo “Ping” Lacson and his running mate Vicente “Tito” Sotto III prefer engaging with people from different sectors of society. By Rick Berdos | Mar 27, 2022 | 7-minute read KEEP READING PHL Vote 2022 A historic election The May 9 election for President of the Philippines is going to be a historic one, one way or the other. By Jose Bayani Baylon | Mar 24, 2022 | -minute read KEEP READING PHL Vote 2022 VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Pro-Uniteam pages spread FAKE photo of Leni-Kiko Pasig rally All three posts flagged by VERA Files Fact Check ridiculed the rally. By VERA Files | Mar 24, 2022 | -minute read KEEP READING PHL Vote 2022 Massive crowd at Leni-Kiko Pasig rally fills the air with love Love filled the air in Pasig City’s business district as thousands braved the scorching summer heat to show support to the presidential bid of Leni Robredo, her running mate, Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan, and their eight senatorial candidates Sunday. By Blanch Ancla and Nica Rhiana Hanopol | Mar 22, 2022 | 6-minute read KEEP READING PHL Vote 2022 VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Bombo Radyo did NOT say ‘70M’ people attended Robredo’s Bacolod rally The radio station disowned the claim. By VERA Files | Mar 21, 2022 | -minute read KEEP READING PHL Vote 2022 VERA FILES FACT CHECK: MISLEADING clip claims Sharon Cuneta exposed Robredo’s communist links She was talking about a recent disinformation narrative targeting Robredo. By VERA Files | Mar 21, 2022 | -minute read KEEP READING PHL Vote 2022 VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Story on Toni Gonzaga’s ‘laryngitis’ after singing in Marcos rallies is SATIRE This is not the first time Gonzaga figured in a satirical post that misled people. By VERA Files | Mar 18, 2022 | -minute read KEEP READING PHL Vote 2022 China-based troll farms? What vested interest does China have in the forthcoming presidential elections? By Antonio J. Montalvan II | Mar 17, 2022 | -minute read KEEP READING PHL Vote 2022 VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Photo of Robredo, Pangilinan with marital rope, noose FAKE There were no ropes in the original. By VERA Files | Mar 15, 2022 | -minute read KEEP READING PHL Vote 2022 VERA FILES FACT CHECK: NO ‘license’ of Comelec spox being removed Neither Duterte nor Calida ever made a pronouncement to take away any license of Jimenez’s. By VERA Files | Mar 11, 2022 | -minute read KEEP READING PHL Vote 2022 VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Presidential aspirant Joey Montemayor understates COVID-19 vaccination numbers, omits context on need for boosters Presidential candidate Dr. Jose “Joey” Montemayor, who is against mandatory vaccination, claimed that the number of fully vaccinated individuals in the Philippines has not reached 30 million as of early March. This is false. By VERA Files | Mar 11, 2022 | 6-minute read KEEP READING PHL Vote 2022 Robin’s majority It’s been years since I’ve attended a political rally, and more than a decade since I attended one for a presidential candidate. But I found myself with a ringside seat at the UniTeam’s Barotac Nuevo (Iloilo) rally thanks to Dr Ferjenel Biron, an ex- and returning congressman and the political leader and kingpin of the 4th District of Iloilo. By Jose Bayani Baylon | Mar 10, 2022 | -minute read KEEP READING PHL Vote 2022 VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Netizen FALSELY claims motorcycle Robredo rode ‘did not move, for photo ops only’ The clip was a 25-second excerpt from a two-and-a-half-minute-long video. By VERA Files | Mar 10, 2022 | -minute read KEEP READING PHL Vote 2022 The Filipino Marian Eastern Catholic Church of Masbate The sect also goes by another name, Ina Poon Bato Simbahang Naglalakbay. By Antonio J. Montalvan II | Mar 9, 2022 | -minute read KEEP READING PHL Vote 2022 VERA FILES FACT CHECK: ‘Fake vs real’ drone shot of Robredo’s Iloilo grand rally FALSE None of the photos were edited. By VERA Files | Mar 9, 2022 | -minute read KEEP READING PHL Vote 2022 VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Old Robredo election ad altered to MISLEAD An old election campaign video of Vice President and presidential aspirant Leni Robredo was altered with the use of unrelated images to present misleading information about her. By VERA Files | Mar 8, 2022 | -minute read KEEP READING PHL Vote 2022 VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Posts claiming Atom Araullo is ‘KakamPink’ FALSE ‘Atom Araullo is a Kakampink’ says one caption. ‘Atom Araullo for Leni’ says another. By VERA Files | Mar 8, 2022 | -minute read KEEP READING PHL Vote 2022 VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Robredo skipping SMNI debate NOT because ‘no advance Qs given’ Robredo’s spokesperson Barry Gutierrez cited a “conflict of schedule” as the reason for the vice president’s non-attendance. By VERA Files | Mar 7, 2022 | -minute read KEEP READING PHL Vote 2022 VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Video of retired professor ‘bashing’ Robredo over declared campaign funds MISLEADS Carlos did not allude to the vice president in her remark. By VERA Files | Mar 4, 2022 | -minute read KEEP READING PHL Vote 2022 VERA FILES FACT SHEET: The Filipino vote in May 2022 More than 65.74 million Filipinos are expected to cast their votes on May 9 in the country’s first-ever national elections during a pandemic. By VERA Files | Mar 4, 2022 | 2-minute read KEEP READING PHL Vote 2022 VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Priest did NOT say don’t attend mass if not pro-Robredo The remark has been wrongly connected to the priest as early as December and recently revived on FB from Feb. 17 to Mar. 2. By VERA Files | Mar 3, 2022 | -minute read KEEP READING PHL Vote 2022 Learning from Ali Muhammad Ali, arguably, was the best boxer of all time. For my generation at least. Not only could he “float like a butterfly and sting like a bee”, he was, as he was always boasting, “pretty” - while opponents like Joe Frazier were “ugly”. By Jose Bayani Baylon | Mar 2, 2022 | -minute read KEEP READING PHL Vote 2022 What crime did Leila de Lima commit? We continually ask that question in earnest, because even her detractors cannot answer it objectively. By Antonio J. Montalvan II | Feb 26, 2022 | -minute read KEEP READING PHL Vote 2022 Magnanakaw One of the most pointed attacks being levied against the leading candidate for president is one word: Magnanakaw (Thief). By Jose Bayani Baylon | Feb 26, 2022 | -minute read KEEP READING PHL Vote 2022 Disinformation attempts to rehabilitate the Marcoses, disparage EDSA A heavy dose of conspiracy theory, denial of human rights violations during the Marcos dictatorship and casting of democracy icon President Corazon Aquino as villain were among the scores of martial law and Edsa-1 related disinformation debunked by Tsek.ph. By TSEK.PH | Feb 25, 2022 | -minute read KEEP READING PHL Vote 2022 VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Claim that PH media did not report on Marcos’ presence in SMNI debate FALSE All of the seven mainstream media groups called out in the post reported on his participation. By VERA Files | Feb 23, 2022 | -minute read KEEP READING PHL Vote 2022 VERA FILES FACT CHECK: ‘ABS-CBN’ report linking Vico Sotto to Pepsi Paloma case FAKE This post is fake. Don't believe it. By VERA Files | Feb 22, 2022 | -minute read KEEP READING PHL Vote 2022 VERA FILES FACT CHECK: SMNI anchor falsely claims Robredo laid conditions for attending debate This is not true. Robredo’s spokesperson said the allegation is a “complete fabrication.” By VERA FILES | Feb 21, 2022 | 3-minute read KEEP READING PHL Vote 2022 VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Presidential bet Norberto Gonzales’ claim that PH has no law vs. rebellion needs context While there is, indeed, no specific law on rebellion, the criminal act has been defined and made punishable under the Revised Penal Code, as amended by Republic Act 6968 in 1990. By VERA FILES | Feb 19, 2022 | 3-minute read KEEP READING PHL Vote 2022 VERA FILES FACT CHECK: FB groups, pages post FAKE ‘Angel Locsin, Toni Gonzaga’ Twitter exchange The interaction between the two actresses never happened. By VERA Files | Feb 19, 2022 | -minute read KEEP READING Posts pagination Newer posts 1 2 3 4 5 … 9 Older posts