MindaNews fact-checked a post on a Davao City Facebook group involving an injured dog. It is fake and meant to lure users fall to a phishing scam.
Facebook user Cleo J. Lee posted the fake claim on March 31, a day before April Fools’ Day. In the post were two photos of a pitbull supposedly found lying on a roadside in Davao City, a victim of a hit-and-run incident.
We found a similar post in a Reddit thread under r/CommonScams a day before the Cleo J. Lee post went viral on Facebook. Notice that the dog is the same as well as the wordings of the post, except the name of the place. Consistent with our trust for factual reporting, we will rectify any error that we have committed. If you spot a factual error, you may notify the MindaNews Editors.MindaNews is the news service arm of the Mindanao Institute of Journalism . MindaNews was founded in 2001 by independent, professional Mindanawon journalists who left the country’s most widely-circulated Manila-based broadsheet to tell the stories of Mindanao from the lenses of Mindanawons.
Our fact-checking initiative with a uniform format started in October 2021 as part of Internews’ pioneering Philippine Fact-Checker Incubator project. Internews is an international non-profit that supports independent media from 100 countries. Our fact checks include this paragraph encouraging readers to be part of the process: “As with all our other reports, MindaNews welcomes leads or suggestions from the public to potential fact check pieces.”As a news organization, we strictly adhere to accuracy, fairness, balance, independence, accountability and transparency not just in our fact-checking initiative but in all other aspects of our work at MindaNews.
Step 2: When a claim is worth fact-checking, a team member looks for multiple sources to dispute the claim, including tracing the original source document.
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