Misleading claims about human rights abuses under the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos have resurfaced on social media in the run up to the 50th anniversary of martial law. Attempts to discredit reports about the brutal period of martial law are met by small but persistent efforts to preserve accounts of the atrocities committed during Marcos’s term. Project Gunita – the Tagalog word for “memory” – is a band of less than 30 young volunteers who met on Twitter during the election campaign season in early 2022. Their oldest member was born the year Marcos died in 1989. Their mission, conceived after his son Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr won, is to digitize more archives about Marcos senior’s two-decade rule and make these more accessible on social media. The government’s Human Rights Violations Victims’ Memorial Commission – tasked to build a fitting memorial for the victims -- says that no matter how much the horrors of martial law are downplayed online, the fact remains that the government has already recognised it happened. IMAGES