Claim: The late dictator Ferdinand Marcos lawyered for Jose Rizal and put the world’s gold in a trust fund for all of humanity
Rating: FALSE
A vlogger is recirculating on Facebook the debunked claims of a discredited ex-World Bank employee that the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos put the world’s gold reserves into a trust fund “for the benefit of humanity.”
Japinay Tomodachi’s Facebook page “Para Paraan Lang, Japinas,” posted on March 9 a grainy clip of a seven-year-old Youtube video by Karen Hudes that traffics on conspiracy theories and outright falsehoods. The post has been shared 14,000 times.
Hudes was disowned by the World Bank way back in 2014 for misrepresenting herself as “acting general counsel” of the multilateral institution. In a statement, the World Bank said “Karen Hudes has not been employed by the World Bank since 2007 and is in no capacity authorized to represent any arm of the World Bank Group. Any claims otherwise by Ms. Hudes or her proxies are false and should not be viewed as credible.”
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