For this season of “Catch Me If You Can,” Jonathan Ong and Kat Ventura are having conversations with people across the political aisle. In their recent study entitled Parallel Public Spheres, they diagnosed how Philippine society is so divided that it seems like we’re living in separate political universes. Can we still rebuild our public sphere, where people can have real conversations, maybe have disagreements — but at the end of the day still treat each other as fellow citizens, rather than enemies?

Sass Sasot rose to fame during the Duterte administration, becoming one of the top 3 mega-influencers supporting former President Rodrigo Duterte. Many academic papers have been written about Sass since then, critiquing her for spreading misinformation.

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For this season of “Catch Me If You Can,” Jonathan Ong and Kat Ventura are having conversations with people across the political aisle. In their recent study entitled Parallel Public Spheres, they diagnosed how Philippine society is so divided that it seems like we’re living in separate political universes. Can we still rebuild our public sphere, where people can have real conversations, maybe have disagreements — but at the end of the day still treat each other as fellow citizens, rather than enemies?

Sass Sasot rose to fame during the Duterte administration, becoming one of the top 3 mega-influencers supporting former President Rodrigo Duterte. Many academic papers have been written about Sass since then, critiquing her for spreading misinformation.

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For this season of “Catch Me If You Can,” Jonathan Ong and Kat Ventura are having conversations with people across the political aisle. In their recent study entitled Parallel Public Spheres, they diagnosed how Philippine society is so divided that it seems like we’re living in separate political universes. Can we still rebuild our public sphere, where people can have real conversations, maybe have disagreements — but at the end of the day still treat each other as fellow citizens, rather than enemies?

In this episode Kat talks to a political content creator and supporter of President Bongbong Marcos, known on Facebook and YouTube as Tap Wan.

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Mob behaviors meant to silent, shame, and punish political opponents became common practices on social media during the elections. Meanwhile, legacy media networks failed to gather all political camps to a national debate. But now that the elections are over, how do we move forward together after so much fighting?

Download the English report here. For the Filipino version of the report, access it here.

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Online influence operations have found new ways to skirt around fact-checking initiatives and social media policies to influence voters. In this episode, we talk about the new personalities in the study Parallel Public Spheres: Influence Operations in the 2022 Philippine Elections by Jonathan Ong, Nicole Curato, Rossine Fallorina, Jose Mari Lanuza, and Ferdinand Sanchez II.

Download the English report here. For the Filipino version of the report, access it here.

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