{"id":44371,"date":"2022-05-11T00:32:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T15:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/10\/philippines-election-torture-survivors-from-marcos-sr-era-in-shock-after-sons-win"},"modified":"2022-05-11T00:32:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T15:32:39","slug":"philippines-election-torture-survivors-from-marcos-era-in-shock-after-sons-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44371","title":{"rendered":"Philippines election: torture survivors from Marcos era in shock after son\u2019s win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Factcheckers say Ferdinand Marcos Jr was overwhelming beneficiary of a flood of online disinformation before poll<\/p>\n

Survivors of the brutal regime of the late Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos have described his son\u2019s apparent landslide presidential election victory<\/a> as the product of trickery and disinformation, warning it is unlikely the billions stolen by his family will be recovered, and that human rights in the country will be weakened.<\/p>\n

Ferdinand \u201cBongbong\u201d Marcos Jr had won more than 30.8m votes in a highly divisive presidential election by Monday, according to an unofficial count. His vote tally is more than double that of his closest challenger, the human rights lawyer and current vice-president, Leni Robredo<\/a>, who had campaigned based on transparency and good governance.<\/p>\n

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Factcheckers say Ferdinand Marcos Jr was overwhelming beneficiary of a flood of online disinformation before pollSurvivors of the brutal regime of the late Philippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos have described his son\u2019s apparent landslide presidential e…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3052,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,53,55,204,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-human-rights","category-philippines","category-rodrigo-duterte","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3052"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44372,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44371\/revisions\/44372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}