The digital team of newspaper Manila Bulletin has presented misleading infographics on the results of its presidential preference survey using the social media platform Twitter.
In the poll results published on its social media accounts on Jan. 24, 2022, the broadsheet claimed that Sen. Manny Pacquiao led its Jan. 21 to 23 Twitter survey after obtaining 47% of the 169,559 total votes that were cast.
He was followed by Vice President Leni Robredo with 37%, former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. with 12%, labor leader Leody de Guzman with 2%, and Manila Mayor Isko Moreno and Sen. Panfilo Lacson with 1% each.
A closer look at the infographic, however, showed that the Bulletin’s social media team combined two separate polls in a single pie chart to arrive at its supposed results.
With Twitter polls limited to a maximum of four options, the newspaper had to resort to using two separate polls to accommodate the six candidates included in its survey.
This led to possible multiple votes for candidates whose names appeared in separate polls, as was the case with the “front-runners” Pacquiao and Robredo.
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