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Sunday, May 10, 2026

Posts falsely claim Philippine media did not cover Marcos Jr's flagship housing project - Yahoo News

Facebook and TikTok posts with hundreds of thousands of views claim mainstream media ignored the launch of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr's flagship housing programme. The posts accuse broadcasters of bias against the leader, the son of a controversial dictator. However, the outlets mentioned in the posts did report on the launch, with major news channel ABS-CBN running it as a top story.

"GMA, ABS, CNN? What now? Do something and report this. Don't be biased," reads Tagalog text overlay on a video shared on Facebook.

The video shows an extract of a news report from Net25, a TV station owned by conservative Christian group Iglesia ni Christo, which backed Marcos Jr in the May 2022 election in which he swept to victory.

The report, which aired on September 22, covers the launch of Marcos Jr's landmark housing scheme, which pledges to build six million homes by 2028.

Text overlay on the video, which attracted more than 37,000 views, praises Marcos Jr and says that mainstream news outlets would "never" report on the project.

The video attracted more than 900,000 views in similar posts on TikTok here and here, along with a flurry of comments criticising media outlets for purportedly failing to cover the event.

"I only saw this here. Why aren't there any other reports about it? Where are the journalists?" one person commented.

"It's good we still have a TV station that reports the truth," another wrote.

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