“Former president Rodrigo Duterte said the Armed Forces of the Philippines knows that the Philippines has a president who is a drug addict.”
What Vera Files found
This was the first time Duterte mentioned Marcos’ name in connection with drug abuse. In a Nov. 18 , 2021 speech in Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro, the then-president said a candidate in the 2022 presidential election was taking cocaine, but did not say who he was referring to.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Rodrigo Duterte made this claim around 28 January 2024. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 30 January 2024, 2 days later. Its rating was “Needs context”.
Rodrigo Duterte has 126 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 46 of them false or fake, 78 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- fb.watchhttps://fb.watch/pU4-4ojZKh/
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