Former President Rodrigo Duterte isn’t back in the country despite winning the mayoral race in Davao City in the recent midterm elections.
TikTok user @jhaynadz_08, however, recycled an old report in his May 17 video, passing it off as a recent news update that falsely claimed that Duterte had returned to Davao City. The caption read:
RODRIGO DUTERTE BACK IN DAVAO CITY PHILPPINE 🇵🇭 WELCOME HOME TATAY DIGONG👊
The footage was lifted from a July 1, 2022 segment of ANC’s Rundown newscast, which aired shortly after Duterte returned to Davao City following the inauguration of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. as the succeeding president. The original video remains available on YouTube.
FactRakers is a Philippines-based fact-checking initiative of journalism majors at the University of the Philippines-Diliman working under the supervision of Associate Professor Yvonne T. Chua of the University of the Philippines’ Journalism Department. Associate Professor Ma. Diosa Labiste, also of the Journalism Department, serves as editorial consultant.
FactRakers' fact-checks also include those produced by Tinig ng Plaridel — the official student publication of the UP College of Media and Communication — and the UP Journalism Club.
The name of the initiative, coined from the words “fact” and “raker,” is inspired by the term “muckrakers,” first used in the early 1900s by American president Theodore Roosevelt to express his annoyance at progressive, reform-minded journalists at the time.
