bongbong marcos kicking off his election campaign late last year. running alongside him for vice president is sara duterte, daughter of popular authoritarian president rodrigo duterte. bongbong s father, president ferdinand marcos, ruled the philippines for two decades. his regime rigged elections, tortured and killed political opponents and plundered up to $10 billion of public money corruption immortalised by wife imelda s extravagant shoe collection. in my four years as philippines correspondent, i ve seen how social media has been exploited to revise dictator ferdinand marcos s corrupt and authoritarian rule to one of aspirational leadership. and it s been so widespread that many people up and down the country are now parroting the misinformation with absolute conviction.
who will you vote for? of course, bongbong marcos. bongbong marcos, the son of ferdinand marcos, the former president? yes! and dictator of the country? excuse me? please correct the word dictator. translation: | would - like to experience the good life that people were seeing when ferdinand marcos sr was still the president. we need to have that back. a man who knows about the marcos good life is americanjournalist jim laurie. he was in malacanang palace the day the family fled the country for exile in hawaii in 1986. you went into imelda s wardrobe room, and she had hundreds of designer gowns and designer dresses with the labels still on. and it was just a sense that, in a very, very poor country, it just somehow seemed obscene. more than three decades later, whatjim laurie witnessed is repeatedly questioned online. they will say things like,
from the country in 1986 following a popular revolt against his corrupt and authoritarian rule. howard johnson reports from manila. i am today announcing my intention to run for the presidency of the philippines. bongbong marcos kicking off his election campaign late last year. running alongside him for vice president is sara duterte, daughter of popular authoritarian president rodrigo duterte. bongbong s father, president ferdinand marcos, ruled the philippines for two decades. his regime rigged elections, tortured and killed political opponents and plundered up to $10 billion of public money corruption immortalised by wife imelda s extravagant shoe collection.
in my four years as philippines correspondent, i ve seen how social media has been exploited to revise dictator ferdinand marcos s corrupt and authoritarian rule to one of aspirational leadership. and it s been so widespread that many people up and down the country are now parroting the misinformation with absolute conviction. who will you vote for? of course, bongbong marcos. bongbong marcos, son of ferdinand marcos, the former president? yes! and dictator of the country? excuse me? please correct the word dictator. translation: | would - like to experience the good life that people were seeing when ferdinand marcos sr was still the president. we need to have that back. a man who knows about the marcos good life is americanjournalist jim laurie. he was in malacanang palace the day the family fled the country for exile in hawaii in 1986. you went into imelda s wardrobe room, and she had hundreds of designer gowns and designer dresses with the labels still on.
in my four years as philippines correspondent, i ve seen how social media has been exploited to revise dictator ferdinand marcos s corrupt and authoritarian rule to one of aspirational leadership. and it s been so widespread that many people up and down the country are now parroting the misinformation with absolute conviction. who will you vote for? of course, bongbong marcos. bongbong marcos, the son of ferdinand marcos, the former president? yes! and dictator of the country? excuse me? please correct the word dictator. translation: i would like to experience the good life that people were seeing when ferdinand marcos sr was still the president. we need to have that back. a man who knows about the marcos good life is american journalistjim laurie. he was in malacanang palace the day the family fled the country for exile in hawaii in 1986. you went into imelda s wardrobe room, and she had hundreds of designer gowns and designer dresses with the labels