{"id":6297,"date":"2022-04-14T07:55:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T07:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/?p=6297"},"modified":"2023-02-10T16:42:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T15:42:15","slug":"marcos-campaign-benefits-from-disinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/marcos-campaign-benefits-from-disinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcos&#8217; campaign benefits from disinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philippine presidential candidate Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is heading the opinion polls ahead of the May 9 elections. Election observers have linked this success to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rappler.com\/nation\/elections\/ferdinand-marcos-jr-president-campaign-reaping-benefits-years-disinformation\/?utm_source=piano&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=3969&amp;pnespid=o.LKz45H_7nY4Lq3_E_j4qkJ5k4HpXdsgQ9yD1ZtrEqVwrtM_T0D7ScSLswSi.WlEm8nOP9v\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">long-standing disinformation<\/a> strategy. For the past six years, the Marcos family has systematically invested into spreading fake news throughout a broad media network, aiming to distort and revise historical facts related to the Marcos dictatorship in the 1980s. A twisted rewriting of history should influence the electorate in order to increase their empathy for Marcos Jr.<\/p>\n<p>The narratives created \u2018portray his father&#8217;s two-decade rule as a golden age of peace and prosperity while whitewashing human rights abuses and the plundering of state coffers\u2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmanetwork.com\/news\/topstories\/nation\/826034\/marcos-jr-winning-philippine-election-misinformation-say-fact-checkers\/story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported GMA News<\/a>. Not only nostalgic Marcos\u2019 supporters but also a young electorate echo these narratives. For example, a 25-year-old hopes that Marcos Jr. will build up on his father&#8217;s &#8220;legacy&#8221; and his investments into public infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The disinformation campaign influences the electorate&#8217;s perception not only of the Marcoses but also of the opposition. Analyses of Twitter activities by the <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/action-against-trolls-and-disinformation\/\">#FactsFirstPH<\/a> campaign show a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rappler.com\/technology\/election-tweets-marcos-jr-robredo-supporters-political-polarization-facts-first-philippines-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strong political polarization<\/a> that facilitates spreading fake news. Twitter accounts favoring Marcos are significantly more involved in negative posts about presidential candidate Leni Robredo as well as her supporters than vice versa.<\/p>\n<p>Although Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is leading the opinion polls with 56% according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rappler.com\/nation\/elections\/survey-monitor-polls-philippines-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pulse Asia surveys<\/a> (as of March 21, 2022), polls favoring Leni Robredo climbed to 24% in a very short time period.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo \u00a9 Engin Akyurt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philippine presidential candidate Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is heading the opinion polls ahead of the May 9 elections. Election observers have linked this success to a long-standing disinformation strategy. For the past six years, the Marcos family has systematically invested into spreading fake news throughout a broad media network, aiming to distort and revise historical facts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65,58,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-disinformation","category-human-rights-news","category-internal-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6297"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7910,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6297\/revisions\/7910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amp.ngo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}