Therein lies the rub.There has been so much disinformation, gaslighting and whitewashing online that they may end up choosing a leader based on half-truths, falsehoods and fabrications, rather than on facts.
On May 9, over 65 million Filipinos will cast their ballots to choose who will succeed President Rodrigo Duterte. Radio is at third place, with 30%, while print – a reliable platform for deep discussion of issues in a bygone era – does not even reach 1%. That message was largely ignored through much of the two decades that followed. But as one government after another failed to deliver on the 1986 revolt's lofty promise of a First World economy, the Marcoses became relevant again.
Since then, Marcos Jr's handlers have been flooding social media with their own version of history which often contradicts court records, official accounts and research documents. Troll operations have become adept at not just flooding social media with disinformation, but also evading fact-checkers and algorithms that look for coordinated inauthentic behaviour.Vera Files, a third-party fact-checking partner of Facebook's parent firm Meta, said that out of 120 viral online posts about the elections last year, half came from Mr Marcos Jr's camp.
Marcos Jr's supporters, for instance, insist on claiming that he earned a degree from Oxford, when the university itself has said he received only a special diploma.
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