Episodios

  • 13 - Sass Sasot part 2

    13 - Sass Sasot part 2
    May 11 2023

    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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    49 m
  • 12 - Sass Sasot part 1

    12 - Sass Sasot part 1
    Apr 28 2023

    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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    34 m
  • 11 - Tap Wan

    11 - Tap Wan
    Apr 15 2023

    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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    28 m
  • We’re trying something new this season!

    We’re trying something new this season!
    Apr 14 2023
    Jonathan Ong and Kat Ventura experiment with a few episodes where they have a conversation with personalities across the political aisle. They go over controversial social issues and discuss solutions to bridge parallel public spheres.

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    2 m
  • 10 - Twinmark throwback

    10 - Twinmark throwback
    Apr 1 2023
    “Oh ganun pala, naku po!” We revisit the journalistic investigation on the clickbait enterprise of Twinmark Media. How was Trending News Portal really connected to Mocha Uson? And, which pages did Facebook actually take down?

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    33 m
  • 9 - Sexy alters

    9 - Sexy alters
    Mar 23 2023
    This is a tale of two online influencers. One is a closeted-gay bachelor who posts headless naked selfies, and the other is a crossfit coach who fills his wall with seductive thirst-straps. Both have made names for themselves for their racy content, but in the last election cycle they turned…political.

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    33 m
  • 8 - Parallel Public Spheres: Fighting Fire with Fire (Part 2)

    8 - Parallel Public Spheres: Fighting Fire with Fire (Part 2)
    Dec 15 2022

    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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    23 m
  • 7 - Parallel Public Spheres: Pseudo Experts, Senators, and AFAMs (Part 1)

    7 - Parallel Public Spheres: Pseudo Experts, Senators, and AFAMs (Part 1)
    Dec 1 2022

    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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    29 m