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Inside Guo-Tok: How TikTok fan accounts whitewashed Alice Guo’s image amid POGO probe

6 days ago | verafiles.org | |Rhenzel Raymond Caling |Psalm Mishael Taruc

“What if she’s really innocent?”To online supporters of disgraced former Bamban mayor Alice Guo, the criminal accusations against their beloved leader are unbelievable. After all, how could a simple, people-loving and pretty-looking public servant who ushered her small municipality into a progressive one commit such crimes, they said.
Ano nga ba ang influence operations at FIMI?

1 month ago | verafiles.org | Rhenzel Raymond Caling | |Psalm Mishael Taruc

Kasama ang reporters mula VERA Files, Philstar.com at PressOnePH, alamin ang ibig sabihin ng Influence Operations at Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) sa video na ito. Hihimayin namin ang mga coordinated behavior ng ilang online accounts para manipulahin ang paniniwala ng mga Filipino at mga politikal na proseso sa bansa.
FACT SHEET: What we know about the HMPV virus

Jan 21, 2025 | verafiles.org | Blanch Marie Ancla

Social media posts bearing false information on China’s public health circulated early January, following reports there of a surge in respiratory infections caused by the virus called the human metapneumovirus (HMPV). Dr. Margaret Harris, spokesperson of the World Health Organization (WHO), clarified that HMPV is not a cause for alarm as it is expected that countries in the northern hemisphere experience a month-on-month increase in acute respiratory infections during winter.
Sa tulay ng pagbabago, ano ang nakataya at sino ang talo?

Oct 24, 2024 | verafiles.org | Rhoanne De Guzman |Valerie Joyce Nuval |Rhenzel Raymond Caling

Isa ang Panay-Guimaras-Negros Islands interlink Bridge sa tatlong malalaking proyekto na sakop ng kasunduan na pinirmahan ng Pilipinas at South Korea noong Oct. 7. Matagal nang pangarap ng mga taga-Western Visayas na magkaroon ng tulay para sa mas mabilis na byahe at mas maunlad na ekonomiya sa rehiyon. Pero sa ilalim ng “one-of-its-kind” bridge project na ito, nanganganib na maubos ang critically endangered na Irrawaddy dolphins. Paano mababalanse ang pangangailangan sa kaunlaran at kapaligiran?
Visayas bridge construction still hangs 5 years after China’s withdrawal

Oct 15, 2024 | verafiles.org | Rhoanne De Guzman |Valerie Joyce Nuval |Rhenzel Raymond Caling

Second of two partsThe pathway that will lead Western Visayas to greater economic heights. That’s how the government envisions the 32.47-kilometer Panay-Guimaras-Negros Island (PGN) Bridge project.
P187-B Visayas mega-bridge threatens endangered Irrawaddy dolphins

Oct 14, 2024 | verafiles.org | Rhenzel Raymond Caling |Rhoanne De Guzman |Valerie Joyce Nuval

First of two partsRex Magbanua was 7 years old when he first joined his father to fish in the waters of Bago City in Negros Occidental. Like most kids, he was amazed to see a handful of fishes caught using their long nylon ropes. Another scene he vividly remembers was the sight of dolphins swimming with them every time they went out to the sea. Those were different from the pictures of typical dolphins in grade school textbooks. What Rex saw had rounded foreheads and did not have snouts.
SONA 2023 PROMISE TRACKER: ECONOMY

Jul 19, 2024 | verafiles.org | |Valerie Joyce Nuval

Proposals to amend certain “economic” provisions of the 1987 Constitution remain in limbo in the Senate despite President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s for the resolution on Charter change approved by the House in early February. Speaker Martin Romualdez said he and newly minted Senate President Francis “Chiz” Escudero have not discussed Resolutions of Both Houses (RBH) 6 and 7 before Congress adjourned its second regular session in May.
SONA 2023 PROMISE TRACKER: INFRASTRUCTURE

Jul 18, 2024 | verafiles.org | Valerie Joyce Nuval

Two years into office, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. admits that delays have been hounding the country’s infrastructure drive, making him cling to various measures in hopes of “Building Better More.”As of July, the administration has 185 Infrastructure Flagship Projects (IFPs) with an indicative total value of P9.14 trillion. Three of these have been completed, six were given the green light while eight are under construction.
The rock that freed Reed Bank from dispute

Jul 16, 2024 | verafiles.org | Valerie Joyce Nuval

It seemed like a simple question: “Is Itu Aba a rock or an island?” The Itu Aba issue, however, was far more complex and had far-reaching implications in the Philippines’ 2016 arbitral case versus China. For Philippine Ambassador to Türkiye Henry Bensurto, the answer to this question was crucial in the country’s arbitration case against the Asian superpower over the West Philippine Sea.
De Lima not ready to run for public office, will focus on rebuilding Liberal Party

Jul 5, 2024 | verafiles.org | Valerie Joyce Nuval

Leila de Lima, former senator, justice secretary, and a beacon of strength to many, is resisting calls for her to run for the Senate in 2025 after languishing in detention on trumped up charges for more than six years.