Lucille Sodipe

2 days 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 days 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 days 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.

3 days ago | yahoo.com | Lucille Sodipe

The 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.

6 days ago | yahoo.com | Lucille Sodipe

A video of veteran Filipino actor and director Leo Martinez reciting a "president's speech" has circulated online in posts falsely attributing the quote to ex-Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, who is awaiting trial for his war on drugs at the International Criminal Court. In fact, part of the quote is from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's inaugural speech in 2019. "This is what one president said when he took office.