TIME says Marcos has successfully 'whitewashed' the family's brutal legacy through social media manipulation, but adds: 'By trying to repair his family name, Bongbong may reshape his country too'
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He added, however, that the Marcos family’s project to rehabilitate its image “has resulted in other shifts.” Marcos ascended to Malacañang following one of the most politically heated elections in the country. His poll victory came more than three decades after the People Power Revolution ousted his father, dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos, whose 21 years in office was marked by iron-fist rule, human rights atrocities, and plunder.
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