‘Superficial Gazette’ parody accounts created after online backlash over govt’s Marcos post

The Official Gazette of the Philippines is the latest subject of online parody, after the backlash over a graphic commemorating the 99th birth anniversary of the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos.

A Facebook page, "Superficial Gazette of the Philippines," was put up early Monday as criticisms continued to pour over online accusing the government communications unit of historical revisionism.

The page, said to be managed "by the Best Communications Team in the Solar System," was an off-shoot of the hashtag #superficialgazette that poked fun at Sunday's blunder.

"Superficial Gazette" has over 3,000 likes as of this posting. 

A Twitter account, @SuperficialGZT, has also been created.

In a statement, it tagged Official Gazette, "effective September 11, 2016, [as] a repository of #HistoricalRevisionism in the Philippines," a seemingly sarcastic interpretation of a statement issued by Assistant Secretary Ramon Cualoping III of the Presidential Communications Operations Office.

"In line with our mandate of providing quality #HistoricalRevisionism to the Filipino people, the #SuperficialGazette, run by the Best Communications Team in the Solar System, takes pride in uploading content that also excels in aesthetic quality," a succeeding commentary on the page read.

It added: "As such, our uploaded images suffer minimal degradation (if any at all) when uploaded on Facebook and Twitter. The same is also held true for the previous Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines communications team, but not the present one."

It went on: "Official Gazette, maybe it's time for you to step up your game. #PartnerForChange"

The page has also began uploading graphics that featured tweets from #superficialgazette.

On Sunday, the Official Gazette uploaded a graphic that showed a photo of Marcos with a quote from his inauguration in 1965 superimposed near the bottom. The image was shared three different times, with edited accompanying caption, from three paragraphs down to one.

For his part, Communications Secretary Martin Andanar said the paragraphs on the Martial Law and the People Power revolt should not have been edited out of the post because "you cannot change history."  — RSJ, GMA News