“President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is a "drug addict" and his name was included in a narco-list from the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency.”
What Vera Files found
Former president Rodrigo Duterte showed no proof of his claim. PDEA issued a statement saying that Marcos' name "is not and was never" in its drug watchlist.
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 “Baseless”.
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
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This check was done by Vera Files, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.