On November 13, a post in the Facebook group Bongbong Marcos Alliance for Unity and Progress falsely declared that presidential aspirant and son of a late dictator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. won the 2016 vice presidential elections “by [a] huge margin”. The Facebook user stated that Marcos Jr. garnered a grand total of 21 million votes. As of writing, the post has accumulated around 24,000 reactions, 6,400 comments, and 18,000 shares.

Last November 9, presidential aspirant Manny Pacquiao met with President Duterte in Malacañang. Two days later, BANAT NEWS TV claimed in a video that the Commission on Elections had announced Pacquaio’s departure from the presidential race.  As of writing, the video has been deleted. 

Throughout the pandemic, the Duterte administration has been met with condemnation for prioritizing policies and infrastructure projects that range from wasteful to anti-people over  the pandemic response. 

After a group of civic leaders filed a petition asking for the cancellation of presidential aspirant Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.’s certificate of candidacy (COC), a Facebook post claimed the conviction cited in the petition had already been decided upon by the Supreme Court. As of writing, the post, made on November 2 by the group Bongbong Marcos Supporters Nation 2022, has amassed 921 reactions and 415 shares.

Ang wika ang daan upang lubos nating makilala ang ating kultura bilang mga mamamayan at bilang isang lipunan. Samakatuwid, mapapansing magkaugnay ang dalawang ito sa isa’t-isa; sa pangyayaring mamatay ang wika, kasamang maglalaho ang kalakip nitong kultura.

On October 24, a Facebook post was uploaded by blogger William C. Ubagan that accused presidential aspirant and incumbent Vice President Leni Robredo of vote-buying. The post has currently garnered 18 reacts and 24 comments and 54 shares.

The camp of presidential aspirant Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. on Saturday wrongly claimed he has always been honest about his special diploma from the University of Oxford. 

Despite recent complaints of exhaustion over the demands of his job and repeated threats of resignation in the past 3 years, President Rodrigo Duterte in a taped address aired last Tuesday  confirmed he would run for vice president in the 2022 National Elections.

Even as the Philippines suffers one of the worst COVID-19 outbreaks in Southeast Asia, skepticism over vaccine safety and efficacy lingers among some Filipinos.

The pre-colonial times are almost a blur now in the modern-day Philippines. There are many facts in our history textbooks that have been trivialized and sanitized, and among those is the gender-fluid history of the Philippines.