Leni Robredo leads Manila Bulletin survey, BBM supporters claim it’s ‘trolls’

Critics of Leni Robredo slammed this recent survey of Manila Bulletin

Vice President Leni Robredo is leading in the recent survey that Manila Bulletin conducted on different social media platforms but for the supporters of her opponent Bongbong Marcos, this was caused by “trolls”.

Several news outlets have conducted their presidential and vice-presidential surveys for the 2022 elections. For the past surveys that Manila Bulletin conducted, BBM was leading. However, his online votes were overpowered by VP Leni in the recent MB survey on Facebook.

The news outlet assigned specific FB reactions for presidential aspirants. “Like” was dedicated to Manila Mayor Isko Moreno while former Senator Bongbong Marcos got the “Love” reaction. The “Care” reaction was assigned to Vice President Leni Robredo, “Haha” was for Senator Ping Lacson, Leody de Guzman got the “Wow” reaction while Senator Manny Pacquiao’s name was assigned to “Sad” reaction.

VP Leni led the recent survey but according to supporters of BBM, this survey is no longer credible. The reason that they are pointing out is the names from foreign FB accounts. Supporters of Marcos claimed that this lead of Robredo was created by “trolls”.

BBM supporters shared screenshots of accounts with foreign names that reacted with “Care” reaction for VP Leni. There were also those who slammed the Manila Bulletin survey and they said that they will no longer participate in this.

One netizen on Facebook even claimed that the sudden rise in the number of votes for Leni Robredo was due to “cyber jacking”. President 2022 Philippines FB Page claimed that the votes that were supposed for Mayor Isko Moreno were transferred to the number of votes for the Vice President. The said netizen also said that it seemed that this is the same “cyber jacking” that happened in the 2016 elections.