There is no evidence to support a claim that the camp of presidential candidate and Vice President Leni Robredo “cheated” to top a recent assessment of engagements on social media platform Facebook.
Facebook page “Breaking News” on March 10, 2022 disputed posts about Facebook analytics of social media engagement conducted by data scientists Wilson Chua and Roger Do.
Claiming that Robredo’s lead in Facebook analytics was “fake news,” the post included links to results for search terms “Marcos News” and “Robredo News” to assert their position.
While there are indeed more people talking about the specific search term “Marcos News” compared to “Robredo News” at the time when the post was made, the analysis conducted by Chua and Do involved aggregate engagements about the two candidates since the start of February.
During an interview with OCTA Research’s Dr. Guido David on March 6, 2022, the data scientists said they looked at 58 million data points to arrive at their assessment that Robredo already overtook her rival Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in terms of engagements on Facebook.
From around 4.8 million engagements in mid-February, Robredo’s numbers increased to over eight million as of the first week of March.
In contrast, aggregate engagements involving Marcos Jr. only increased from 5.1 million to around 7.5 million.
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