[ANALYSIS] The Philippine cyber-political divide

Political polarization is observed on Twitter amid the 2022 Philippine presidential elections. More in this FactsFirstPH study by Gilbert Chua:

accounts with negativity. There was almost 3 times more participation in negativityas measured by the number of unique accounts that tweeted about a negative topic at least once.Statistics of negative activity per candidate. Accounts that have tweeted more about Ferdinand Marcos Jr. tend to have greater proportions of negativity in terms of tweets and the accounts that have tweeted about a negative topic since October 1, 2021.

This highlights one of the limitations of the tagging methodology as it is likely that the tweets from accounts oriented towards Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and which mentioned Leni Robredo were truly negative instead of being neutral or positive. net_mjraccounts that mentioned Leni Robredo. In the same time frame, the number of tweets mentioning Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

This quoting behavior captured the spread of content between accounts as new accounts built on existing tweets and either passed on or modified their message.Number of accounts associated with each candidate that have quoted a tweet and wrote text that is among the top trending topics. Leni Robredo has the largest proportion followed by Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

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