A video on Facebook (FB) erroneously claimed a Taiwanese news organization “favorably reported” on presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. and running mate Sara Duterte-Carpio.
On Feb. 21, TikTok user seamandadragat posted a short clip of a report taken from Formosa TV (FTV) Global News, a Taiwan-based digital television news channel. The 51-second video shows a woman reporting, with footage of the tandem’s proclamation rally playing in the background. It bore the text: “DITO SA ATIN BIHIRA IBALITA TAPOS TIPID PA KUNG IPALABAS NILA (Here, [the media] seldomly reports this and it’s just brief if they show it).”
On March 28, the FB page Angel Daily (created on Sept. 29, 2020) reposted the video with the caption: “Thank you TAIWAN NEWS for spreading the good new (sic) about BBM SARA TANDEM #UniTeamBBMSARA.”
The report is not spreading the “good news” about the tandem’s campaign. The full report of FTV Global News, delivered in Mandarin, can be seen in this Feb. 25 FB post.
Corresponding via text with VERA Files Fact Check, Taiwan FactCheck Center, a fact-checking organization in Taiwan, said the report was “not support” for the Uniteam tandem.
Summer Chen, editor-in-chief of Taiwan FactCheck Center, clarified that the report did not mention “good things” about Marcos Jr. Instead, it talked about how he is gaining popularity among Filipino voters despite his family’s “notoriety.”
Read the full story on VERA Files Fact Check.
