A YouTube thumbnail falsely shows former Ako Bicol Rep. Zaldy Co being chased by police at Prague Airport in the Czech Republic and wearing a prison uniform, even though the video provides no evidence that he escaped, went missing or fled Czech custody. The thumbnail of the April 26 video posted by YouTube vlogger Sangkay Janjan claimed that Co was missing and suggested someone had helped him escape: OMG! ZALDY CO NAWAWALA! MAY NAGPATAKAS (OMG! Zaldy Co is Missing! Did someo

A Facebook user altered a post from Caloocan Mayor Dale Gonzalo “Along” Malapitan’s official Facebook page by replacing its original video with an unrelated photo of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, his daughter and North Korean officials. Malapitan’s original post, uploaded on April 20 at 11 a.m., carried a nine-minute video of the inauguration of Caloocan Connect, a local coworking space. The altered version was posted the same day at 9:50 p.m. by user ジャルデレザ 猿 (Jaruderez

A Facebook page posted an altered photo falsely showing six nonresident ambassadors in a group photo with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Official photos and video from Malacañang show Marcos meeting the ambassadors separately during the presentation of their credentials. The ambassadors’ faces also look markedly different from those in the altered image. The altered photo was uploaded on April 15 by the Facebook page Bagong Pilipinas Ngayon with the caption: THE BEST PRESIDEN

A viral image falsely shows Vice President Sara Duterte posing with BINI members wearing graduation sashes supposedly from the University of the Philippines and University of Santo Tomas and supporting the P-Pop group’s purported “college journey.” Searches found no evidence that such an event took place. A Google Gemini scan detected a SynthID watermark indicating that most or all of the image was generated or edited using Google AI. The image also contains visible errors i

The Supreme Court has not ordered President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to undergo a hair follicle drug test or submit a medical certificate. Instead, it only directed Executive Secretary Ralph Recto and other Palace officials to comment within 10 days on a petition filed on April 10 by the United People’s Initiative (UNI) compelling Malacañang to disclose Marcos’ health condition and asking that he take the drug test. Political Outlook made the false claim in a Facebook post on Ap

Wanted gambling operator Charlie “Atong” Ang was recently spotted in the Philippines, contrary to a viral YouTube claim that he died in Malaysia at age 68. The video also used an out-of-context clip of actress and former partner Sunshine Cruz and unrelated wake imagery to make the false claim appear credible. The claim appears in an April 9 YouTube video from the Blind Item University channel, which has more than 232,000 subscribers. Titled “🔥 ATONG ANG PUMANAW SA MALAYSIA