Claim: The late former President Corazon Aquino was the true dictator, not the late former President Ferdinand Marcos, Sr.
Category: False
Complete details: A Facebook reel shared by user Coksy Khate Szaicah, it showed two news video clippings side by side, one of the late former President Corazon Aquino telling the Philippine Army and Marine soldiers who orchestrated a coup d' etat during her administration to surrender or die, and one of the late former President Ferdinand Marcos, Sr telling his military officials not to attack the Filipino citizenry who were massed in the streets calling for his ouster.
Why we fact check this: this reel is trying to peddle a lie using two different scenarios: The late former President Corazon Aquino was legally bound to defend the government and the Constitution from a coup d' etat, while the late former President Ferdinand Marcos, Sr. was faced with a civilian and unarmed citizenry fed up with his Martial Law- backed dictatorship.
The reel has garnered eighteen thousand likes and has been shared more than six thousand times.
