It was posted across 194 groups and earned 95,842 interactions and 187,703,980 views. The most viewed claim was that there were no critics arrested during martial law, a claim made in 2018 by former Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, who served as Marcos’ defense minister. Many of these claims “appear coordinated,” Chua and Labiste said, noting that these were often crossposted across multiple pages or groups.
To measure the reach and engagement of each claim, the team used Crowdtangle, a social media monitoring tool that tracks public Facebook pages and groups. Tsek.ph project coordinators Yvonne Chua and Diosa Labiste said this was an indication of how disinformation was being used to “erase or burnish the discreditable record of Marcos.” So far, it has flagged disinformation claims-related to both martial law and the May elections-from 1,325 Facebook pages, with at least 200 bearing the names Marcos and Duterte or variations thereof. These fact checks on martial law are part of the coalition’s broader efforts to combat election-related misinformation since it was relaunched early this year.
Tsek.ph, a coalition of universities and media and civic groups led by the University of the Philippines, said that from November to February, it had flagged at least 58 martial law-related claims that either propagated myths about the late dictator or denied the human rights violations that occurred during his 21-year rule. But online, the fact-checking initiative Tsek.ph has found, conspiracy theories and historical denialism about martial law continue to thrive as agents of disinformation attempt to rehabilitate the Marcos family and to disparage the bloodless uprising that ended the dictatorship. In recent years martial law was imposed in parts of Ukraine in 2018, after some of its ships were seized by the Russian navy, leading to violent protests, and in parts of the Philippines in 2017 in a bid to stop the rise of Isis.On the streets on Friday, the spirit of the 1986 Edsa People Power Revolution seemed to still burn bright as people from all walks of life poured onto the historic highway to commemorate the 36th anniversary of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos’ ouster. Martial law is only carried out when deemed necessary, and only limited by international law and the conventions of civilised warfare.Ĭivil courts don’t review the decisions of tribunals which are set up by military authorities, and there is little knowledge on what remedies there are against potential situations involving the military abusing their position of power.
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