
FACT-CHECK: Social media users spread Duterte death hoax
Multiple social media accounts falsely claimed that former president Rodrigo Duterte had died.
Multiple social media accounts falsely claimed that former president Rodrigo Duterte had died.
Ten days after his arrest, false reports surfaced on Chinese digital media platforms claiming that former President Rodrigo Duterte had collapsed into a coma while in detention at The Hague, where he faces trial before the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity linked to his bloody anti-drug war.
A drone footage of a massive crowd was falsely claimed to be from a pro-Duterte “Cebu People’s Indignation Rally” in Mandaue, Cebu.
A YouTube video falsely claimed that Pope Francis had resigned and that Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle had replaced him as pope.