FACEBOOK in the Philippines has exploded with misinformation about the two presidential front runners in next week’s polls, as pages supporting Ferdinand Marcos Jr flood the site and trash his rival Leni Robredo.
Fake and misleading posts on TikTok and YouTube have also leached into the most popular social media platform among the country’s nearly 76 million Internet users, turning it into a melting pot of election fallacies.
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