“Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency named Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and his son Sandro Marcos as financiers of the foiled drug smuggling attempt in Laos.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 16 Oct 2026.
Vera Files rated thisFalse
What Vera Files found
This is an altered version of the graphic card first published by radio station DZXL News. In the original version, the PDEA implicated an unnamed politician in Mindanao as financier of the smuggling, not Marcos Jr. and his son.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 16 October 2026. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 26 October 2026, 10 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
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