VERA Files

Several Facebook (FB) pages have shared job posts supposedly for the Department of Labor and Employment’s (DOLE) emergency employment program dubbed Tulong Panghanapbuhay sa Ating Disadvantaged/Displaced Workers (TUPAD). These are fake. DOLE’s regional offices have disowned the circulating posts in their advisories. 

Calling out those behind the alleged signature-buying for a people’s initiative for Charter change, lawyer Harry Roque said people still clamor for former president Rodrigo Duterte’s leadership because “he has one word” and sticks to it. This is false. It runs counter

A short video on TikTok is erroneously claiming that President Ferdinand Marcos has signed into law the bill increasing the daily minimum wage of workers in the private sector by P100. This is not true. While SB 2534 has been approved on

Thumbnail photo from Traveling Erol’s You Tube post It happened in the dead of night in a remote mountain village 16 years ago. At 10:30 in the evening of April 29, 2008, the air was still and only the sound of crickets

After supporting President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in his candidacy for the 2022 presidential election, pastor Apollo Quiboloy of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC) sect now calls for his resignation. STATEMENT Quiboloy, who faces sex-trafficking allegations, addressed his critics in an uploaded

Slogans and placards at the rally showed strong opposition to attempts to change the Constitution that was passed in 1987 following the 1986 restoration of democracy in the country. 1/10 Photo by Bullit Marquez for VERA Files Slogans and placards at the

What to watch? Choosing between Song Kang’s “My Demon” or Jang Dong-yoon’s “Like Flowers in Sand” was easy. It was a quick pass on the latter because I thought its vibe was run-of-the-mill drama compared to the former’s aura reminiscent of American

In a media briefing on Jan. 30, former president Rodrigo Duterte raised the idea of Mindanao seceding from the Philippines, saying that local political forces would be regrouping in Davao to establish a movement for Mindanao independence.  “There’s a process in that,

A YouTube video is claiming that House Speaker Martin Romualdez has been tagged as a wanted individual by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and the Senate after he was alleged to be the mastermind behind the controversial charter change initiatives.  This is not

Two videos on YouTube are erroneously claiming that House Speaker Martin Romualdez has been sent to prison. This is not true. There are no pending criminal cases filed against Romualdez to warrant any detention. On Feb. 19, these videos appeared and one