BBM hits Twitter 'disinformation' | The Manila Times

Presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. THE camp of presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. (BBM) on Saturday hit back at an online news network over its apparent attempts to discredit its campaign by using a “disinformation network to take down what it alleged as a disinformation network.”Lawyer Victor Rodriguez, Marcos chief of staff and spokesman, issued the statement after it was reported by Agence France-Presse (AFP) that Twitter suspended hundreds of accounts reportedly linked to supporters of Marcos based on the accounts and hashtags identified in a recent article by local news site Rappler.The son and namesake of the country’s former president is drawing support from a massive social media campaign seeking to get him elected in May, which critics claim is attempting to rewrite the family’s history. In a statement to AFP on Saturday, Twitter said the more than 300 accounts had been removed “for violating our platform manipulation and spam policy” and that an investigation was ongoing.Twitter said sharing political content on an account or rallying people do so via hashtags was allowed, “unless the accounts are inauthentic, compensated or automated, which we see no clear evidence of in this case.” Twitter said that “with the Philippine…
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