TNP Fact-Check Team, Author at Tinig ng Plaridel

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TNP FACT-CHECK: Taylor Swift didn’t flash Marcos hand sign at NYU speech

Posted on 23 May 202223 May 2022
byTNP Fact-Check Team

Singer-songwriter Taylor Swift was not doing presumptive President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.’s campaign hand sign when she made a “V” hand gesture during her speech at the New York University…

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TNP FACT-CHECK: Congress hasn’t passed mandatory ROTC bill for senior high

Posted on 20 May 202223 May 2022
byTNP Fact-Check Team

A viral tweet on the passage of a bill making the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) mandatory for Grade 11 and 12 students is misleading. While the House of Representatives did approve the measure, it happened three years ago in the 17th Congress. The bill remains pending in both the House and the Senate in the current Congress.

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#TNPFACTCHECK: Japan, SoKor news reports misused to imply praise for Marcos bid

Posted on 4 May 20224 May 2022
byTNP Fact-Check Team

South Korean and Japanese news reports on the presidential candidacy of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for the May 9 polls have been misused on a TikTok video to suggest the two nations’ support for his bid.

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TNP FACT-CHECK: Misleading video claims Duterte backing Robredo bid

Posted on 27 April 202229 April 2022
byTNP Fact-Check Team

President Rodrigo Duterte has not declared support for the presidential candidacy of Vice President Leni Robredo, contrary to what a misleading TikTok video has implied after a group supporting the…

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FACT-CHECK: Gadon repeats false claim vs Aquino, CPP-NPA

Posted on 21 April 202226 April 2022
byTNP Fact-Check Team

Former Sen. Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. was not the founding leader of the Communist Party of the Philippines and New People’s Army (CPP-NPA), contrary to a claim revived by senatorial aspirant and suspended lawyer Larry Gadon.

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TNP FACT-CHECK: Defensor falsely claims QC mayor Belmonte allied with Robredo

Posted on 20 April 202226 April 2022
byTNP Fact-Check Team

Reelectionist Joy Belmonte and her party Serbisyo sa Bayan have not endorsed any presidential candidate. She previously said a presidential endorsement “might or might never happen.”

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TNP FACT-CHECK: Montemayor misstates first IATF resolution banned nurse deployment

Posted on 6 April 202220 April 2022
byTNP Fact-Check Team

The first resolution issued by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases was a COVID-19 travel advisory for China, not a ban on the foreign deployment of nurses as claimed by presidential candidate Jose Montemayor Jr. in a recent debate.

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TNP FACT-CHECK: Robredo claim on energy supply needs context

Posted on 19 March 202220 April 2022
byTNP Fact-Check Team

The statement needs context as it was unclear whether she was referring to the expiration of Malampaya’s contract or expected supply depletion.

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TNP FACT-CHECK: No priest ‘delicensed’ for ‘backing’ Robredo

Posted on 9 March 202220 April 2022
byTNP Fact-Check Team

No Roman Catholic priest has been “delicensed” or removed from the priesthood for purportedly supporting presidential candidate Leni Robredo and slamming her rival, Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

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TNP FACT-CHECK: Montemayor overcounts jobless Filipinos

Posted on 3 March 202220 April 2022
byTNP Fact-Check Team

The Philippine Statistics Authority recorded in its December 2021 Labor Force Survey a 6.6% unemployment rate, equivalent to about 3.27 million individuals.

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