Claims made by or about officials, parties and institutions, each with the verdict of a credible fact checker or official data. Quotes are what circulated, not what is true; read the facts beside them.
We list claims only after a fact checker (Cek Fakta Kompas and Tempo, turnbackhoax, AFP, PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, VERA Files, Factually and others) or primary data has examined them. Raw rumours are not published. Report a claim or an error through the contact page.
248 checked claims
What is circulating
“A photo shows a mass protest outside Government House in Bangkok demanding lower fuel prices, utility bills and taxes.”
Claimed by Facebook post · social media
The facts
Hive Moderation rated the image 99.9 percent likely AI-generated, OpenAI's tools found its watermark, and the buildings do not match the real Government House complex. The post, published on 7 November 2026, drew more than 120,000 reactions.
What is circulating
“Malacañang ordered a 50-kilometre-long, 80-storey velvet curtain to be put up in Metro Manila to hide poverty ahead of the November 2026 ASEAN summits.”
Claimed by Facebook page CEBU KNOWS · social media
The facts
Neither Malacañang nor the Metro Manila Development Authority announced any such curtain; official briefings covered logistics and security for the 16 to 18 November summits at the Philippine International Convention Center. VERA Files traced the post to an earlier satirical item, yet it drew more than 108,000 reactions and many commenters took it as real.
What is circulating
“Ombudsman Jesus Crispin 'Boying' Remulla asked the public to pray for him to be healed of leukemia so he could keep cleaning up the 'filth' of the Duterte administration.”
Claimed by Facebook page Lathalang Pilipino · social media
The facts
Neither Remulla nor his brother, Interior Secretary Jonvic Remulla, made the statement. The Ombudsman disclosed a leukemia diagnosis in 2023 and has said he has been cancer-free since then, adding he would file complaints against people spreading false claims about his health. The posts, published on 9 and 10 November 2026, drew at least 1,716 reactions.
What is circulating
“The Department of Environment and Natural Resources is selling 144,000 hectares of forest land in the Davao Region to private investors.”
Claimed by Facebook pages including DuterteSara Supporters · social media
The facts
About 144,000 hectares in the Davao Region, part of roughly 500,000 hectares across Mindanao, are being opened to investors under Sustainable Forest Land Management Agreements, but ownership stays with the government. Article XII of the 1987 Constitution bars the sale of state forest land unless it is first reclassified as agricultural. VERA Files rated the post misleading.
What is circulating
“Posts on 9 November 2026 said: "Gas prices are dropping which means the gas companies purposely increased the prices so you would blame Trump and vote blue."”
Claimed by Social media posts, including a Facebook post by a conservative influencer · social media
The facts
PolitiFact rated the claim False. EIA data show gasoline peaked at $4.48 a gallon on 21 September and fell every week afterward, well before the 3 November election, and the national average was about $3.94 on 11 November. Analysts attributed the decline to seasonal demand, cheaper winter fuel blends and recovering Middle East exports after Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz in February.
What is circulating
“Posts on Election Day, 3 November 2026, said more than 20,000 "fraudulent ballots" cast for Democrats were uncovered in an FBI raid of a warehouse in Houston.”
Claimed by Facebook and X posts by a pro-Trump content creator · social media
The facts
PolitiFact rated the claim Pants on Fire. The FBI said "no election-related operation occurred" and the Harris County clerk called the information false. One photo came from a January 2026 FBI search in Fulton County, Georgia, another showed ballots from an official San Francisco drop box, and no raid at the pictured Houston storage facility was found.
What is circulating
“On NBC's "Meet the Press" on 8 November 2026, Florida governor-elect Byron Donalds said: "There's more oil going through the Strait (of Hormuz) today than there was pre-war."”
Claimed by Byron Donalds, Florida governor-elect · news report
The facts
PolitiFact rated the claim Mostly False. The Wall Street Journal estimated flows through the strait at about 14 million barrels a day in the week ending 18 October, 82 percent of pre-war levels, while Vortexa put them at 9.2 million. Total Persian Gulf exports briefly topped the pre-war level of 23.3 million barrels a day by counting alternative routes, but ship attacks in the strait hit a record in October.
What is circulating
“A photo shows former President Jokowi handcuffed and led away by police after Listyo Sigit admitted the wiretapping results were sent to Solo.”
Claimed by Social media users · social media
The facts
The image is the thumbnail of a 5 November 2026 YouTube video that only compiled other clips and the creator's opinion, and an image detector found it had been modified. Police had named four suspects in the wiretapping case, Listyo Sigit, Ahrie Sonta Nasution, Eko Hadi Santoso and Slamet Uliandi, and there was no valid report of Jokowi's arrest or of any such admission by Listyo.
What is circulating
“In an exclusive interview, Vice President Gibran admitted he had not communicated directly with President Prabowo since last year.”
Claimed by Social media users · social media
The facts
The clip was cut from a Liputan6 interview aired on 2 December 2025, in which Gibran denied being left out of cabinet meetings and said he and the President divided their duties. He said "there is no problem at all" between him and Prabowo and made no such admission.
What is circulating
“A photo shows former police chief Listyo Sigit Prabowo wearing an orange detainee uniform after being named a suspect.”
Claimed by Social media users · social media
The facts
Listyo was named a suspect in the illegal wiretapping of President Prabowo and detained at police headquarters on 3 November 2026, but police released no photos of the suspects. SynthID showed the image was made or edited with Google's Gemini and TruthScan rated it 99 percent likely to be AI-generated.
What is circulating
“A document shows President Prabowo's letter of resignation from the presidency.”
Claimed by Social media users · social media
The facts
The document did not come from any government account or credible outlet. A SynthID watermark indicated it was made or edited with an OpenAI model, and TruthScan rated it 99 percent likely to be AI-generated; it circulated amid the wiretapping case against former police chief Listyo Sigit.
What is circulating
“A video shows police chief Suyudi Ario Seto saying foreign parties, not Jokowi, were involved in the illegal wiretapping of President Prabowo.”
Claimed by Social media users · social media
The facts
The footage, posted by Harian Kompas on 20 October 2026 before the wiretapping case surfaced, shows Suyudi saying foreign parties were involved in the forest and land fires under investigation. When Suyudi spoke about the wiretapping case on 6 November 2026, he made no mention of foreign involvement.
What is circulating
“Former senator Antonio Trillanes IV said in a government graphic: 'If sacrificing my life for my country is what it takes, then so be it.'”
Claimed by Facebook pages and groups · social media
The facts
VERA Files rated the graphic fake: Trillanes did not make the statement and the Presidential Communications Office did not publish it. The graphic used a PCO logo that was replaced in April 2023, and the posts drew at least 5,573 reactions.
What is circulating
“Palace Press Officer Claire Castro called Vice President Sara Duterte a 'plague' on the country and demanded her resignation.”
Claimed by Facebook page Lathalang Pilipino · social media
The facts
VERA Files found Castro never made the statement. Her actual earlier remarks criticised Duterte's spokesperson Paolo Panelo Jr. after he suggested on 14 September that President Marcos step down. The fake graphic drew over 2,000 reactions and 1,500 comments.
What is circulating
“President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. urged Filipinos to bathe only once a week and to have 10 people share one bucket of water because of an expected Super El Nino.”
Claimed by Facebook pages sharing a quote card · social media
The facts
VERA Files found the quote card was made with artificial intelligence; Hive Moderation rated it 99.9 percent likely AI-generated. In an 11 October interview Marcos urged households to collect rainwater and reuse wastewater for plants, but said nothing about bathing or sharing water.
What is circulating
“In a "60 Minutes" interview, Trump said "zero people came in through our southern border" in the last 17 months.”
Claimed by Donald Trump · official statement
The facts
FactCheck.org found the claim false. Border Patrol still apprehends roughly 5,000 to 10,000 people a month trying to cross illegally, and Customs and Border Protection has acknowledged thousands of people who evaded capture. Crossings have fallen sharply, but not to zero.
What is circulating
“Speaking about Washington, D.C., in a "60 Minutes" interview, Trump said: "Now we haven't had a murder in a long time."”
Claimed by Donald Trump · official statement
The facts
FactCheck.org found the claim false. City data show nine homicides in the 30 days before November 10, 2026 and 88 so far that year, close to two a week. Homicides were down 26% from the same period of 2025 (119 to 88), a real decline but not an absence of murders.
What is circulating
“In a CBS "60 Minutes" interview, Trump said his roughly $3 billion net worth increase during his second presidency came from stocks, telling the interviewer "You should have had stock."”
Claimed by Donald Trump · official statement
The facts
PolitiFact rated the claim Mostly False. His financial disclosures attribute about $1.4 billion of the gain to cryptocurrency ventures and about $400 million to other businesses. Forbes estimated a 14% S&P 500 rise would have added only about $6 million to his stock holdings, while his Trump Media shares lost about $226 million.
What is circulating
“President Prabowo has raised the salaries of all specialist doctors in Indonesia by Rp30 million.”
Claimed by Facebook posts · social media
The facts
The government pays a special allowance of Rp30 million a month only to specialists posted in disadvantaged, border and island regions (DTPK), not to all specialists. Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said payments began in January 2026 to about 1,100 specialists at regional government facilities in those areas.
What is circulating
“A video shows Prabowo urging the public to stay calm amid the current situation, shared on 10 November 2026 as students held protests.”
Claimed by Facebook posts · social media
The facts
The footage is real but was recorded during the 2025 protests, not in November 2026. Kompas said the framing needed correcting because it presented an old appeal as a response to the 10 November 2026 demonstrations.
Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
Donald Trump
Iran
Joko Widodo
Indonesian National Police
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Prabowo Subianto
Claire Castro
Sara Duterte