you made a video with bongbong marcos, ferdinand marcosjunior, with bongbong marcos, ferdinand marcos marcos, ferdinand marcosjunior, talking about the history and you said during martial law there were no political arrests, do you stand by that?” law there were no political arrests, do you stand by that? i never said that. no political arrests? i said that. no political arrests? i said that because i signed the warrants of arrest. are we living in a post- r—truth world where lies can be told and people can get away with that? my and people can get away with that? my reading of history tells me that has always been the case. historians decades later can objectively assess what really happened during that period. in the past, leaders used to divide and rule as a way of subduing their subjects. now in the philippines, it appears fake news is a new weapon to confuse and control. howard johnson, bbc news, manila. throughout this week, there'll be much more on this on bbc world news in our beyond fake news season. you can also follow the debate and research by visiting our website, that's

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ferdinand and imelda marcos's extravagantly corrupt regime. martial law.ryone. now you're both photojournalists. >> ben: yup. >> anthony: based out of manila? >> ben: yeah, uh, me. marc lives in mindanao. >> anthony: mindanao. now does a journalist need to carry a firearm in this country? >> marc: for me, yes. >> anthony: in the philippines, a press badge is no defense, particularly in the south of the country where marc navales lives and works. >> ben: mindanao has been war-torn for the last how many years? because of the radicalization of recent years, this growing specter of isis, mindanao is fertile grounds for that. >> anthony: now traditionally the argument against journalists arming themselves is that journalists have always been able to portray themselves as noncombatants. >> marc: yes. >> anthony: there was some presumption that they would not shoot you. >> ben: yeah. >> anthony: but these days, people seem to not make that distinction. >> ben: yes. dating back to the marcos years even. >> marc: since 1992, 77 journalists were killed. >> anthony: