“Extermination was never part of the Marcos administration's bloodless war against illegal drugs.”
What Vera Files found
While Marcos has never asked law enforcers to kill any drug suspect, drug-related killings continue to happen under his administration. In a recent report of the Dahas Project, an initiative of the University of the Philippines’ Third World Studies Center that keeps track of reported drug-related killings in the country, some 727 individuals have been reported slain since July 2022.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. made this claim around 22 July 2024. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 24 July 2024, 2 days later. Its rating was “Misleading”.
Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has 62 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 17 of them false or fake, 43 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNa-_Xwaviw
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