Bongbong Marcos and Disinformation

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The Akademiya at Bayan Kontra Disimpormasyon (ABKD) at Dayaan reported that Philippine President Bongbong Marcos announced that his government will conduct a media and information literacy campaign to provide correct information and stop the spread of disinformation. Critics are skeptical of the government campaign because most of the disinformation in Philippine social media are favorable of Bongbong Marcos and negative towards Marcos's political opponents.

It is also reported by Philippine news media site Rappler that the Marcos family waged a years long disinformation on social media to convince a younger generation of Filipinos that the Ferdinand Marcos Martial Law period of the 1970s and 1980s was a "golden age" of prosperity and law and order. The Martial Law period was the opposite, a time of human rights abuses, rampant corruption, the mismanagement of the economy, extrajudicial killings and crony capitalism.

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