MORE than a thousand scholars and academics have signed the "Manifesto in Defense of Historical Truth and Academic Freedom" expressing their opposition to all forms of disinformation — fabrication, manipulation, deceptive rebranding and propaganda — on social media and other digital platforms.

They claimed that the presumptive electoral victory of Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. and Sara Duterte-Carpio "signals an intensified struggle over historical knowledge and pedagogy, the erasure of traumatic personal and collective memories of plunder and human-rights violations under Martial Law, and unbridled myth-making about a so-called 'Golden Age' presided over by the conjugal dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos."

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