Lucille Sodipe

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Lucille Sodipe

Philippine political party Akbayan has not recently staged a rally calling for the impeachment of President Ferdinand Marcos. An image of the purported demonstration that spread on Facebook and TikTok is manipulated. The doctored picture was shared on Facebook on May 15, 2025. It appears to depict protesters carrying banners with the text "Impeach PBBM", the popular initials for Marcos. "These left-leaning rebels wanted the 'Kakampinks' to win in the senate because they can control them.

2 weeks ago | malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Lucille Sodipe

Lucille SODIPE / AFP Philippines20 May 2025 at 2:49 pm·2-min readA glitch in Philippine broadcaster News5's election day coverage has been misrepresented online as proof that the poll agency Comelec manipulated results. The news network said a "graphics error" paired the wrong names with pictures of Senate hopefuls, and results aired by other media included no such mistake.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Lucille Sodipe

The governing body of Catholic bishops in the Philippines has not publicly endorsed senatorial candidates for the Southeast Asian nation's mid-term elections on May 12, 2025. A supposed "pastoral letter" that circulated online before the vote bore signs of fabrication. "Their moral authority will be lost if they continue to engage in political activity," reads a Visayan-language Facebook post shared May 9.

3 weeks ago | malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Lucille Sodipe

Lucille SODIPE / AFP Philippines11 May 2025 at 6:30 am·3-min readAs impeached Vice President Sara Duterte and her onetime ally President Ferdinand Marcos shore up support for their candidates in the Philippine mid-term vote on May 12, social media posts shared a video in April falsely claiming the crowd shouted Marcos's name during her campaign speech in Manila. The clip -- watched tens of thousands of times -- in fact shows a crowd chanting the name of a local candidate backed by Duterte.

3 weeks ago | malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Lucille Sodipe

Lucille SODIPE / AFP Philippines11 May 2025 at 4:16 am·2-min readThe Philippine election body Comelec has not disqualified political party Bayan Muna from the archipelago's May 12, 2025 elections, contrary to rumours that spread online the weekend before the vote. The purported ruling and press announcement in the false posts are fabricated. "The COMELEC has disqualified the BAYAN MUNA Party-list from participating in the 2025 midterm elections," reads a Facebook post shared May 10.