Its clearly a #fakenews. The motive of the story? Your guess is as good as mine.
ABS-CBN reported that in the few hours after the preliminary election results were released, a trend in Google search for the terms “migrate” and “migrating” were noted.
“the sheer magnitude of the spike and the fact that the increased search volume occurred specifically in the hours following the release of the preliminary election results makes it likely that there was a causal relationship between the election results and increased Philippines search terms relating to migrating abroad…”
– Isaac Reyes, as quoted by the ABS-CBN news report
I checked Google trends to see the “spike” and these terms were never close enough to land in the top searches.
The above search trend for topic “migrate” is noticeably almost same as the previous months, and no bump in searches can be seen.
Now let’s compare the search terms “migrate” (in blue) vs “halalan” (in red) which trended in the past 24 hours. See the almost negligible blue line vs the red one? I don’t see a “sheer magnitude of spike” in searches.
Now let’s look at the trending topics in the last 24 hours. Below were to the trending topics. “Migrate” is nowhere close.
Ano sa tingin mo? But if you are here to really check which countries to migrate to – I recommend the Canada and Australia.