Marcos wealth Archives

VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Video carries FALSE claims on Maharlika fund, Marcos wealth

By vera files fact check | Jan 30, 2023 5:32 PM

A YouTube video made a number of untrue claims about the purported wealth of the Marcos family and the proposed Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF). Below, VERA Files Fact Check debunks five false claims made in the video published Jan. 15 video by YouTube channel Filipino Future (created on Feb. 23, 2020). Claim #1 Claim Rating […]

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marcos NOT worth ‘trillions to quadrillions’ of dollars

By VERA Files | Nov 28, 2022 11:48 AM

A video on YouTube claims that the wealth of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. allegedly totals up to quadrillions of dollars. This has no basis. On Nov. 13, a YouTube channel published the video that is still making the rounds online this week. Its headline read: ”Mga Hari, Monarch at Lider Ng ASEAN Kinikilala si PBBM […]

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Government housing program NOT funded by ‘Marcos wealth’

By VERA Files | Oct 07, 2022 5:07 PM

A vlogger claimed that the “Marcos wealth” will be used to fund the new administration’s Pambansang Pabahay Para sa Pilipino program. This is false. Posted on Oct. 2, the incorrect four-minute Facebook (FB) video carried the caption: “Goodnews! Marcos Wealth ipopondo na para sa sambayanang Pilipino! 6M units pabahay ni PBBM nag-umpisa na (Marcos Wealth […]

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: FALSE claims on Marcos wealth and cases reappear

By VERA Files | Oct 07, 2022 4:53 PM

Four previously debunked hoaxes about the wealth and criminal cases of the Marcos family are again making the rounds on social media. Originally posted by a YouTube channel on Sept. 19 and reuploaded on a Facebook (FB) page on Oct. 3, a video carried these claims: The Supreme Court failed to prove that the Marcoses […]

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: NO alleged ‘Marcos gold’ will be used for public spending

By VERA Files | Oct 05, 2022 2:51 PM

Videos on Facebook (FB) are erroneously claiming that the wealth of the Marcoses, including gold, purportedly stored in over 170 banks worldwide, will be used to fund the economic program and other priority projects of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s administration. Two videos appeared on Oct. 1 with similar false headlines. One of the titles read: […]

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Videos repeat multiple FALSE claims on Marcos cases and wealth

By VERA Files | Aug 26, 2022 3:22 PM

Two videos that made the rounds on social media this month featured recurring falsehoods about the criminal cases and wealth of the Marcos family. These incorrect claims are: The Marcoses were not imprisoned because they proved to courts that they are not guilty of corruption; International courts have ruled in favor of the Marcoses over […]

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marcos Sr. NEVER promised to give away his wealth

By vera files fact check | Aug 04, 2022 12:14 PM

A vlogger on Facebook used a YouTube video that falsely claimed that the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr. promised to give away his wealth to the Filipino people. Official legal documents prove otherwise. Marcos’ last will and testaments dated 1982 and 1988 show that the former president only entrusted his wealth to his immediate family […]

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marcoses DON’T own GMA stocks

By vera files fact check | May 26, 2022 11:58 AM

A Facebook video used an old report of a 2007 petition by Sen. Imee Marcos, which claimed the Marcos family owned a third of GMA Network, Inc. Uploaded on May 24, the video posted by the FB page Exile Philippines (created last May 7) bore the text: “Wooow may shares pala ang mga marcos sa […]

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Video on Imelda Marcos’s acquittal in 1990 fraud case NEEDS CONTEXT

By VERA Files | Mar 22, 2022 7:38 PM

The eight-minute clip tackled only one case.

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: TikTok video revives FALSE claims on BNPP, Marcos wealth

By VERA Files | Mar 10, 2022 5:27 PM

A TikTok video repeated unproven and false claims about the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) and the wealth of the Marcos family. It gained a million views and a lot of interactions on Facebook before it was deleted.

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