Just four days after the May 9, 2022 National and Local Elections, Tesk.ph released its report on how bogus vote tallies and supposed disqualification of some candidates proliferated online during election day. The Tsek.ph report said fake news proliferated “overwhelmingly on Facebook, and occasionally on Twitter and YouTube, mostly by Marcos supporters, including […]
Spurious last-ditch reports of candidates being disqualified and a buildup of fabricated vote tallies of presidential contenders took hold of social media as voters trooped to precincts last Monday. This was observed by Tsek.ph, based on the consortium’s live fact-checking efforts on Election Day. The misleading and deceptive narratives on election day largely targeted now […]
As part of a collection of historically and culturally significant websites designated for preservation, Tsek.ph was recently selected by the US Library of Congress for inclusion in their Philippine General Election 2022 Web Archive. The Library aims to preserve digital content, making it available to current and future generations of researchers. Part of its vision […]
After the successful relaunch of the expanded Tsek.ph on January 24, UP Baguio, UP Cebu, UP Visayas, UPOU, and UP sa Halalan 2022, an initiative led by UP Diliman’s Department of Political Science, are also joining the coalition. They are joining the institutions and initiatives composed of media, academe, and civil society organizations, committed to […]
The UP College of Mass Communication Journalism Department is joining the fight against COVID-19 through fact-checking. Fact-checked information can be accessed through its website http://www.factrakers.org and on FactRakers.
The UP College of Medicine (then known as the Philippine Medical School) opens. It predates the opening of the University proper by 3 years.
