A fabricated video purporting to show Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. privately telling his cousin and former House Speaker Martin Romualdez that his arrest was "just a show" has circulated widely on Facebook, accumulating over 160,000 views. AI detection tool Hive Moderation flagged the clip's audio as 98.6% likely synthetic, and no official record, press statement, or news report corroborates the exchange depicted. Romualdez was arrested on September 7 at Cardinal Santos Medical Center in Manila on a plunder charge linked to an alleged P7.44-billion (roughly $130 million) flood control kickback scheme; he has pleaded not guilty and denied all wrongdoing.