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Marcos myths help bring dictator’s son back to power in Philippines

Online disinformation a driver of Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos’s presidential win, analysts say

A video posted in 2020 to YouTube claims the French astrologer Nostradamus predicted the outcome of this week’s presidential election in the Philippines.

“Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr is destined by fate and prepared by time to continue the great plan of his father for the Maharlika country,” the Tagalog-language film claims, referring to the Philippine’s pre-colonial warrior class. “He is the most qualified to become the president of the country.”

While no record exists for such a prophecy, this week Marcos won a landslide victory in an election likely to entrench the power of two families seen by many as bywords for authoritarian rule.

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