False information spread on Facebook a day before the 2025 elections, claiming that Cagayan de Oro City’s 1st District congressional candidate Raineir Joaquin “Kikang” Uy has been disqualified from running in the 2025 elections. 

Posts include edited images impersonating news outlets like ABS-CBN News and CNN Philippines, posted by Isyu Karon, a Davao-based Facebook page. This was also posted in a Facebook page called UP Fact Check, a page mimicking a University of the Philippines fact-checking site and that has since been taken down due to its numerous fake fact-checks. 

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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.

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