MANILA — With less than a week until the May 12 midterm elections in the Philippines, how voters respond to former President Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest by the International Criminal Court could tip the scales.
Since Duterte was arrested in mid-March on charges of murder as a crime against humanity over his crackdown on the country’s drug trade, disinformation about the case has spread on social media — especially Facebook, which is widely used in the Philippines.
