logo
welcome
CBS News

CBS News

Philippines vice president publicly threatens to have nation's president assassinated

CBS News
Summary
Nutrition label

70% Informative

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte says she has contracted an assassin to kill the president, his wife and the House speaker if she herself is killed.

The Presidential Security Command immediately boosted Marcos ' security and said it considered the vice president's threat "so brazenly in public," a national security issue.

The vice president accuses Marcos of incompetence as a president and of being a liar.

The military chief Gen. Romeo Brawner says the Armed Forces of the Philippines will remain nonpartisan.

VR Score

80

Informative language

84

Neutral language

59

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

63

Offensive language

offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

External references

no external sources

Source diversity

no sources

Affiliate links

no affiliate links