Yahoo News Debunks Fabricated Claim of Duterte Genocide Confession

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 09:21:19 +0000

After Rodrigo Duterte was brought to face a crimes against humanity charge at the International Criminal Court (ICC), a fabricated news article claiming Russia was "refusing peace talks" with Ukraine because of the former Philippine president's detention circulated on Facebook. Its supposed author told AFP she did not write the article and the purported report -- illustrated with an AI-generated image -- contains several factual inaccuracies.