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No, a TIME magazine cover did not say former Philippine president Marcos had been acquitted of all corruption cases

Published on 24 January 2019 at 06:30

An image shared hundreds of times on Facebook purports to show a TIME magazine cover featuring late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos headlined: “The only president with the most projects ever built… and acquitted from all graft and corruption cases”. A search of the TIME magazine archive shows that this is a doctored image and the original cover featuring Marcos did not describe him in this way.

No, this is not a photo of the Obamas supporting Philippine opposition candidates

Published on 24 January 2019 at 06:13

A picture shared by a Facebook group with thousands of members purports to show former US president Barack Obama holding a t-shirt and his wife Michelle wearing a dress bearing campaign emblems of the Philippine opposition party. A reverse image search shows that the picture has been doctored. In the original photo, Michelle's dress is plain and the shirt held by Barack contains a message for the victims of a 2015 church shooting in Charleston, USA.

No, a Philippine opposition senator did not wear a shirt bearing President Duterte’s nickname

Published on 23 January 2019 at 10:45

An image claiming to show Filipino opposition senator Antonio Trillanes IV wearing a shirt emblazoned with President Rodrigo Duterte's nickname has been shared in Facebook groups with more than 100,000 members between them. The claim is false, the image has been doctored from an original picture.

No, this is not a video of a man in Dubai who caught fire after his cell phone overheated

Published on 17 January 2019 at 05:00

A video which has been viewed more than a million times on Facebook claims to show a man who caught fire in Dubai after the cell phone in his pocket overheated while being charged with a powerbank. Dubai authorities have said no such incident took place in the emirate and a reverse search found the video showed an incident in Morocco.

No, this photo does not show Chinese fishing boats in Philippine waters

Published on 16 January 2019 at 07:30

A post shared by a Facebook group with over 200,000 followers claims to show numerous Chinese fishing boats which it says are in Philippine waters due to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. A reverse image search found that the image was taken by the Reuters news agency in China four years before Duterte was elected president.

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