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Claim: President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and First Lady Liza Marcos have finally left the Philippines after their anomalies in government were exposed.
Rating: FALSE
Why we fact-checked this: A YouTube channel, “Boses ng Masa,” with 82,700 subscribers, posted the video on February 11, titled, “PBBM at Liza Smuggs tuluyan ng lumisan ng bansa matapos mabunyag mga kabalbalan sa pamahalaan.” (PBBM and Liza Smuggs have finally left the country after their anomalies in government were exposed.)
As of writing, the post has garnered 8,377 views, 487 likes, and 54 comments.
The facts: There have been no official reports of the President and his wife having left the country after their alleged anomalies were exposed. On the day the claim was posted, the Marcoses were at Malacañang Palace in Manila to meet with the Cambodian Prime Minister and discuss bilateral ties. The President also delivered a statement about the event on the same day.
The video, contrary to its claim, talked about Vice President Sara Duterte being allegedly ambushed by two gunmen, without mentioning the date and place of the incident. It further falsely alleged that the President was involved in the incident and that Malacañang denied it.
The video later shifted to an unrelated conference call where the faces of the involved individuals were not visible; only the audio was audible. In the call, Anna Malindog-Uy, Ado Paglinawan, Atty. Harry Roque, and others were discussing the issue of freedom and rights of bloggers critical of the current administration.
No report of the ambush: Duterte herself has also not discussed anything related to the supposed ambush incident, and no evidence was presented to support the claim. Additionally, Malacañang did not release an official statement about Marcos’ alleged involvement in the supposed incident.
In fact, it was Duterte who received criminal complaints on February 12 from the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) over her statement about arranging an assassination of the President, First Lady, and House Speaker Martin Romualdez if she were killed first.
Repurposed clip: Meanwhile, the unrelated conference call audio used in the video was repurposed from an online forum posted on Roque’s Facebook page on February 2. The individuals present in the forum were discussing the congressional hearing last February 4 that involved bloggers and the spread of fake news and disinformation.
Rappler has also published a fact-check article about Marcos’ alleged heart attack posted by the same YouTube channel, “Boses ng Masa”. – Lyndee Buenagua/Rappler.com
Lyndee Buenagua is a third year student journalist and an alumna of the Aries Rufo Journalism Fellowship of Rappler for 2024.
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