Facebook group trend: Anti-Robredo posts appear in bursts – study – Rappler

It found that the bursts of anti-Robredo contents peaked in November 2019 and January 2020.

In January 2020, Robredo decided to hand out bowls of lugaw or porridge to Taal volcano eruption evacuees in response to trolls who have been calling her “Leni Lugaw” since she became the vice president.

The study also found that some political groups are masked by non-political sounding names.

“Intuitively, it sounds like the group is less biased if it doesn’t have a political-sounding name.

“One red flag is if they keep on talking about either very negative or very positive towards a political figure.

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