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MANILA, Philippines — A University of Oxford study found that $200,000, around P10 million, was spent to hire trolls who would spread propaganda for President Rodrigo Duterte and target his opposition.

The study titled “Troops, trolls and troublemakers: A global inventory of organized social media manipulation” looked at how political parties and candidates across 28 countries deploy "cyber troops" who use a variety of strategies, tools and techniques to shape public opinion.
 
Countries included in the research were Argentina, Azerbaijan, Australia, Bahrain, Brazil, China, the Czech Republic, Ecuador, Germany, India, Iran, Israel, Mexico, North Korea, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South Korea, Syria, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, the United States, Venezuela and Vietnam.
 
http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2017/07/24/1721044/duterte-camp-spent-200000-troll-army-oxford-study-finds

LOL. I really find it funny that no less than Oxford are doing a study on President Duterte and others as well on the strategy on how he won the election in the Philippines. He is already in the office for 1 year already and they are still hell bent on attacking him. I remember there was a supposedly coup attack back in December but didn't materialized because it didn't get any support from the masses. And despite the backing of some of the richest people in the Philippines and abroad, it didn't push through by lack of support. I agree that Internet now is really being used by a lot of politicians in different parts of the globe, but I have my reservations about Duterte or his camp using paid trolls to promote him. He is already known before his candidacy. Whether its true of not, Duterte has still the support of the people. He's rating is still very high in the last survey.

Every single politician uses PR agencies, who specialize in shaping the public opinion regarding him. The media is targeting Duterte just because they don't like him. Why single him out, when most of the politicians do the same?

Exactly, and why do they single him out? Because they don't like him. But I guess the feeling is mutual as well as far as the President is concern. As I have said, Duterte is already known not only in Mindanao but in the whole Philippines. He is not the front runner initially, but if my memory serves me right, during the first Presidential debate, he shines and take notice by the voting public and after that there's no stopping the support he got from the different groups. That's why I'm thinking that he probably don't need trolls to shape up public opinions about him. He was voted by the majority, biggest votes so far garnered by a running candidate. If trolls are needed, it should be the opposing party that should hire them so that they would have somewhat stop the onslaught of Duterte during and after the election. The rest is history.

Hehehe, those propagandists suck so much... no need for a study. They are so transparent... like those russians dude speaking about how great assad is. LoL all pathetic trash.

What i find fun is how mentally close those groups are.

This was something that he could have avoided. There was no need to do this (if the report is indeed true), when his popularity ratings are at all time highs. I understand that the media is biased against him, but this was not the solution for that.