Jonathan Corpus Ong

Inaugural Director. @UMass Professor of Global Digital Media. #CarnegieFellows and also #OracleOng 🔮

[Jonathan Corpus Ong @jonathan_c_ong]

What can South-to-South knowledge exchange contribute to Tech and Democracy research? What are divergence points between Global North & South tech justice advocacies? How are so-called global “whole-of-society” coalitions extractive of “local partners”? New study @GloTechLab 1/6

[Robyn Caplan @robyncaplan]

It's baby's first edited volume! Check out the book I edited with @pmnapoli and @rogerson, now published by @degruyter_brill, with chapters from @Ali_Christopher, @blakeplease, @jonathan_c_ong, @TomDivon, and many others!

[Mara Cepeda @maracepeda]

Critics of the Philippines’ anti-disinformation Bill say it would make the state the arbiter of what is false… in a country where fact-checkers found coordinated disinformation helped put the administration in power.

🙏🏻 @jonathan_c_ong @Dadsdaweyitis

https://t.co/4kf7RlxMG9

[Jonathan Corpus Ong @jonathan_c_ong]

Great to see global news coverage about this severely underreported issue !

[Mara Cepeda @maracepeda]

Critics of the Philippines’ anti-disinformation Bill say it would make the state the arbiter of what is false… in a country where fact-checkers found coordinated disinformation helped put the administration in power.

🙏🏻 @jonathan_c_ong @Dadsdaweyitis

https://t.co/4kf7RlxMG9

[Jonathan Corpus Ong @jonathan_c_ong]

The current House Bill copy-pastes Singapore's POFMA and the worst versions of anti-fake news legislation in the region. Why are we modeling our response in the Philippines with autocratic states'? #antifakenewsbill #Philippines

[Richard Heydarian @RichHeydarian]

“TROLL FARMS”: Fighting Against Disinformation in Democratic Ways 🎙️🇵🇭 #DeepDive https://t.co/VY31PyG3v1

[Jonathan Corpus Ong @jonathan_c_ong]

Thank you for having us in your show to discuss the misguided and dangerous anti-fake news bill being pushed by our lawmakers 👇🏽

[Richard Heydarian @RichHeydarian]

“TROLL FARMS”: Fighting Against Disinformation in Democratic Ways 🎙️🇵🇭 #DeepDive https://t.co/VY31PyG3v1

[Cleve V. Arguelles @CleveArguelles]

My co-founder Leo Lope Lofranco and I introducing @momentumph_ to @jonathan_c_ong and @NicoleCurato , intellectual fairy godparents to so many researchers of my generation. You can definitely see it in our thinking and writing!

Much of what I know about doing high-impact, publicly engaged research, I learned from this power duo. We’re among the happy unintended consequences of their 20 years of friendship. Their work has shown that scholarship can be both rigorous and deeply relevant to public life.

And thanks for hosting another fun geeky party! We’ve missed these conversations more than we realized.

[Jonathan Corpus Ong @jonathan_c_ong]

Wrote something for @inquirerdotnet, coz it's so tiring that politicians continue to fancy themselves as the victims of fake news and justifying legislation that rejects all the research we've presented them

[Inquirer @inquirerdotnet]

The anti-fake news bill rejects all the research https://t.co/vtEjiMZqbb

[Jonathan Corpus Ong @jonathan_c_ong]

@Pamchenkova They’re overregulating bars and beam. Especially on elements or connections done by less than a handful of gymnasts

[Jonathan Corpus Ong @jonathan_c_ong]

@flaviasrings I honestly thought this was AI. like, Donatella is asking how dare she

[Amogh Dhar Sharma @AmoghDS]

🚨 New publication! 🚨

‘Political Finance and Patronage Behind Disinformation: Evidence From
India’s Election Campaigns’ in @IJoC_USC

Part of a special issue on ‘True Costs of Misinformation’ edited by @jonathan_c_ong and Joan Donovan.

Open access: https://t.co/bVF99jO3gk

[Corpus Christi @CorpusCambridge]

Congratulations Jonathan!

[Jonathan Corpus Ong @jonathan_c_ong]

long time coming! glad it's out! @alicetiara @rachelkuo @NicoleCurato @sbradshaww @gabriellelim @BostonJoan @IJoC_USC

[Jonathan Corpus Ong @jonathan_c_ong]

Folks at #ica25 might wanna check out @IJoC_USC 's Special Section on True Costs of Misinformation, guest edited by me and @BostonJoan. The collection critiques mainstream frameworks of disinfo studies, written during a more hopeful "peak moment": https://t.co/zUAlPhqJyi

[Jonathan Corpus Ong @jonathan_c_ong]

Great to be part of this @CarnegieEndow volume edited by @stevejfeldstein, featuring colleagues @janjiraSin1984 @irenepoet. My chapter is “How CounterDisinfo funding in the Global Majority is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It”, from @GloTechLab research. https://t.co/UfJltB4QW1 👇🏽

[Carnegie Democracy @CarnegieDCG]

🌐Counter-disinformation funding in the Global Majority is broken, @jonathan_c_ong & Dean Jackson argue.

What can be done to fix it?

Read their full piece in the new #DigitalDemocracyNetwork compendium for @CarnegieEndow⤵️
https://t.co/ByUzKTWrVV

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

Link below 👇🏽

DM for text behind paywall

https://t.co/QPzviBEKg0

[Jonathan Corpus Ong @jonathan_c_ong]

On my sabbatical reading list! 👇🏽theory-building piece grounded in critical global south research.

[Fatima Gaw @fatimagaw]

New @IJoC_USC piece out on Influence Operations in the PH as brokerage in the context of democratic backsliding with @summeragonos, Kris & Gerard! 🌟https://t.co/Tsf5Bc8oSy

This is an update to the pioneering work of @jonathan_c_ong & @jacecabanes on disinfo ops six years ago 🫡

[Cihan Tugal @CihanTugal]

The global significance of the protests in Turkey:
1) The world is shifting to the far right and Erdoğan is the only far-right leader in an electorally competitive context who has had an uninterrupted 23-year rule.
2) There were several electoral victories, uprisings and coup

[Jonathan Corpus Ong @jonathan_c_ong]

Congrats to Jane Pyo, @GloTechLab’s inaugural postdoc for her new tenure track post at Tulane. For sure she will have a long list of visitors, community partners, and prospective mentees booking their flights to Nola and Mardi Gras already. #followmynola 🎭

[Jane Yeahin Pyo 표예인 @pyo_jane]

I'm super greatful to share that I'll be joining the Communication Dept at @Tulane (!!NOLA!!) as an Assistant Professor.
I've been very lucky to receive amazing support- this isn't my individual work and I couldn't have done it alone.