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Maria Ressa
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January 23 - January 26, 2023
Until today, Marcos has denied any connection to “trolls,”22 despite the data that we at Rappler exposed in a three-part Marcos propaganda series in 2019. Not so subtly, the messaging on his social media accounts began with changing the past. To begin with, he repeatedly lied about his education at Oxford University and Wharton. After being caught in the lie by a Rappler exclusive,23 his Senate office quietly changed his résumé on the Senate website, but he doubled down on the lie,24 a lesson many people, including Donald Trump and Mark Zuckerberg, have learned is easily facilitated by social
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the while rehabilitating the image and the role of the Marcoses. The network, which crossed from websites to Facebook pages and groups, YouTube channels, and social media influencers, pumped out propaganda on a massive scale to first downplay or outright lie about the Marcos regime’s excesses, kleptocracy, and human rights violations, exaggerate Marcos’s achievements, and vilify critics, rivals, and mainstream media.
This is why propaganda networks are so effective in rewriting history: the distribution spread of a lie is so much greater than the fact-check that follows, and by the time the lie is debunked, those who believe it often refuse to change their views, matching social media’s impact on behavior in other parts of the world.26
The struggle of man against power,” wrote Milan Kundera, “is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”
