Hundreds of accounts praising the Philippines’ Macros Jr have been suspended on Twitter.

MANILA, Philippines (AFP) – Hundreds of accounts linked to supporters of Philippine presidential frontrunner Ferdinand Marcos Jr have been suspended by Twitter, which claimed they had broken its rules on manipulation and spam.

A major social media campaign aimed at electing the son and namesake of the country’s former dictator in May is gaining traction, prompting detractors to accuse him of attempting to rewrite the family’s history.

Twitter said it has looked into the accounts and hashtags mentioned in a recent post by Rappler, a Philippine news outlet.

In a statement issued to AFP on Saturday, Twitter stated that more than 300 accounts had been banned “for breaking our platform manipulation and spam rules.”

The majority of them were taken down before the Rappler piece was published on Tuesday, and an investigation was still underway, according to the report.

Filipinos are among the world’s most active social media users, and the country has become a hotbed of fake news.

“With the Philippine elections coming up in May, we’re very alert about detecting and removing potential election-related information campaigns,” Twitter added.

Vic Rodriguez, a spokesperson for Marcos Jr, claimed there was “no confidence” that all of the deactivated accounts belonged to Marcos Jr supporters.

Marcos Jr.’s election triumph would be the family’s final political return, after its patriarch was humiliated in 1986 and sent into exile in the United States.

According to recent polls, Marcos Jr. has a significant edge over his nearest challenger and enemy, Vice President Leni Robredo.

Rappler said that fans of Marcos Jr were “trying to dominate Twitter” and that many of the accounts it looked at were created around the time he declared his presidential run in October.

The testimonials bolstered the notion that the Marcoses were “victims” of the 1986 uprising, and that their return to Malacanang was “far overdue,” according to the report.

“Unless the accounts are inauthentic, paid, or automated, which we see no clear evidence of in this case,” Twitter added, “posting political content on an account or encouraging people to do so using hashtags is acceptable.”