French President Emmanuel Macron allegedly said that President Rodrigo Duterte is a “role model” with the way he is handling his war on drugs and terrorism in the Philippines. [ads2] This is what a website called newsfoxchannel.com claimed Macron to have said during the G20 Summit. Macron was quoted saying, “The world may not agree, […] More
A Facebook page shared a website claiming to be a registration site for Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) who want to avail of the P250,000 puhunan package. [ads2] On June 30, “Sen. Manny Pacquiao Trending News Today” page shared the website balitangofw2.ml, which has been shared over 700 times, as of writing. The page even re-shared […] More
On Facebook page “Radca President Elly Velez Lao Pamatong,” a July 10 post claimed that President Rodrigo Duterte called Pamatong his successor. The post showed photos of Pamatong and Duterte side by side along with these words: [ads2] “Duterte to Turn Over Gov’t to Pamatong” “Kong kaya ni ELLY PAMATONG, siya na ang successor ko!” These words were said to be paraphrased by whoever created the poster, based […] More
The BBC staff reportedly laughed at the “childish letter” sent by Senator Antonio Trillanes IV to their network about the fake news that accused the Philippine lawmaker of planning to sue the BBC. At least this is what thephpride.blogspot.com (Pinoy Pride) is claiming in an article that started circulating on Facebook on June 28. [ads2] […] More
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) allegedly published a pastoral letter asking the surviving family member of the Bulacan massacre to “forgive and forget” what the suspect did. The source of the article, however, is dubious as it has published a several fake articles before, some of which we have busted. Pinoy Observer […] More
It has been two weeks since the story broke about how Mommy Dionisia Pacquiao, the mother of Senator Manny Pacquiao, sold expensive jewelry and collection of bags to help Marawi victims. Since then, the story has been shared almost 50,000 times, based on the figures of the Facebook search that we pulled up. [ads2] Her […] More
Vice President Leni Robredo allegedly wanted a Senate hearing to be conducted on how Senator Manny Pacquiao’s trip to Australia was financed, but the article is a satirical one. [ads2] The Adobo Chronicles is on a roll where stories about Robredo are concerned. This time, they made up a story about how the Vice President, who recently […] More
Vice President Leni Robredo has allegedly agreed to an interview with BBC’s Stephen Sackur, but the claim was made by a satirical website. [ads2] The Adobo Chronicles has come up with another piece related to Sackur and this time, it claimed that Sackur “has been wanting” to guest Robredo on his show so negotiations are […] More
A professor at Oxford University’s College of Law is allegedly saying that the International Criminal Court (ICC) cannot prosecute President Rodrigo Duterte because he has a “very high approval rating” in the Philippines. [ads2] The story has been shared close over 25,000 times, based on Facebook search results, after it was published by pinoyobserver.com and […] More
We busted the fake article about the arrest of Vice President Leni Robredo’s daughter, Aika, in the US, but the same fake news site still posted another hoax about Aika. This time, they claimed that Aika was granted a police enquiry bail. [ads2] Fake website fox-news24.com published a story about how Aika was given a […] More
A certain Facebook user has been quite devoted in sharing an article claiming that BBC anchor Stephen Sackur threw shade at Senator Antonio Trillanes when he allegedly said that Filipinos should elect more intelligent senators in the next election. [ads2] Raden A. Payas shared the article to several Duterte and anti-Liberal Party Facebook groups. He […] More
After Senator Antonio Trillanes IV’s BBC interview with anchor Stephen Sackur, with netizens talking about the senator’s response to Sackur’s questions with divided reactions, another satirical piece came out about how he is planning on staging a two-day coup d’etat to prove the BBC wrong. [ads2] The article was published by satirical website The Adobo […] More