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1 day ago | 
japantimes.co.jp | Lucille Sodipe |Purple Romero
Manila – Days after the Philippine Senate declined to launch the impeachment trial of the country's vice president, two interviews with Filipinos arguing for and against the move went viral. Neither were real. The schoolboys and elderly woman making their cases were AI creations, examples of increasingly sophisticated fakes possible with even basic online tools.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Lucille Sodipe
After Philippine House prosecutors said Vice President Sara Duterte's impeachment trial complies with the constitution, her allies shared a video purportedly showing street interviews of students criticising the proceedings. The clip -- spread on Facebook and TikTok and viewed millions of times -- shows signs it was made with AI. The video -- published on June 14, 2025 on TikTok -- appears to show three students criticising the vice president's impeachment during street interviews.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Lucille Sodipe
Supporters of President Ferdinand Marcos have misrepresented a photo of a congested road in Vietnam as depicting gridlock in the Philippines during his predecessor Rodrigo Duterte's term. The posts misleadingly compare the picture with one of a busy Manila highway taken in May 2025. The misleading collage was posted on Facebook on May 28 by a content creator who has previously shared pro-Marcos misinformation debunked by AFP.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Lucille Sodipe
The Philippine health department says lockdowns will not prevent the spread of mpox, dismissing claims of looming restrictions after several towns reported cases of the viral disease. Online graphics announcing nationwide curbs misuse the agency's logo.
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4 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Lucille Sodipe
A Philippine Senate hopeful backed by Vice President Sara Duterte has not been filmed saying she should be removed from power, contrary to online posts. The video has been manipulated and originally shows a message opposing Duterte's impeachment. "Vic Rodriguez has defected, a former ally is now angry with the Dutertes," a narrator says in the video shared May 10, 2025 on Instagram.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
