VERA FILES FACT CHECK: VP Sara Duterte’s OLD trust ratings passed off as recent
Several social media posts are spreading a graphic showing Vice President Sara Duterte-Carpio receiving an 83% trust rating. It came from an old survey.
Several social media posts are spreading a graphic showing Vice President Sara Duterte-Carpio receiving an 83% trust rating. It came from an old survey.
The proportion of Filipinos who say they “can trust most news most of the time” has gone up to 37% this year amid a surge of COVID-19 cases around the time the survey was conducted.
Governments in some parts of the world are “central” in spreading coronavirus-related disinformation, according to communication researchers who also note increasing public trust in the news media.
Since the last PTI trust rating survey in 2017, trust in the church declined to 90 percent. Confidence in government went down to 76 percent. But the decline was sharper for media, which fell to 69 percent from 78 percent.
STATEMENT: In his inaugural address on June 30, President Rodrigo Duterte claimed an “erosion” of trust in government is the real problem confronting the Philippines. “Erosion of faith and trust in government—that is the real problem that confronts us. Resulting therefrom, I see the erosion of the people’s trust in our country’s leaders; the erosion