No, he has had virtually no mainstream media presence. Absent in nearly all debates and presidential interviews. His campaign relies solely on his family's name and the propaganda and historical revisionism that the Marcoses have been relying on for decades. There were certain territories here that were always Marcos loyalists, particularly Ilocos Norte.

One of the biggest problem in this country has always been the amount of misinformation propagated on Facebook, Youtube and now TikTok. If you thought the situation in the US was bad, a Cambridge Analytica whistleblower confessed that the Philippines was the company's petri dish for testing new proxies. Pair that with piss poor public education, and that's how the son of a dictator wins.

[–] Tryp@fuckreddit.tryp.digital 3 points 2 years ago

Fucking hell man! Thanks for the incredibly disturbing info. Cambridge Analytica is right up their with Palantir and Blackwater for evil and destructive companies in my mind. There's actually so many of them nowadays on the private military and intelligence contractor side.

No real action will be done against companies like Cambridge, every side wants to keep the possibility of leveraging them open.