The latest bit of fakery I’ve come across is this image:
Seeing the name of the COMELEC there naturally triggered many people online – well at least on twitter – and prompted me to make inquiries.
Our Regional Election Director for NCR immediately confirmed what I’d already tweeted: that COMELEC doesn’t do this sort of thing. Not to put too fine a point on it, COMELEC Pasig, let alone COMELEC National, did not commission or participate in any ‘transparency survey,’ as this graphic indicates.
But even without that glaring falsehood, just on the face of it, this graphic was already sus.
Needless to say, I haven’t been able to verify its authenticity with the Social Weather Stations. This graphic is so fake I’m actually embarrassed to ask.