justin

senior editor for digital verification @channelnewsasia. ex-@straits_times, @stateivlp fellow, #oneteamsg rower.

[Ian Chong 莊嘉穎 @ChongJaIan]

Tks to @ChannelNewsAsia & @JustinOngS for talking abt the latest AI-enhanced disinfo campaign affecting 🇸🇬.
Bahagia bercakap dgn CNA tentang gelombang disinformasi baru yg menjejaskan🇸🇬. Kali ini menampilkan AI.
很高興與CNA討論新一輪搏擊🇸🇬的AI假訊息。
https://t.co/yASwsULiPR

[Sebastian Junger @sebastianjunger]

Journalism is important because reality is important, and reality is something that many generals and politicians have a complicated relationship with. The powerful do not willingly embarrass themselves, so the press must do it for them.https://t.co/1QLQIjNviP

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

@jengonnerman .@StephenWitt reports on Nvidia, the chip-maker behind the A.I. revolution, and spends time with the company’s leader, Jensen Huang, whose plans for the future are even more ambitious. https://t.co/aYBB45izjs

[justin @JustinOngS]

Grim must-read

[The New Statesman @NewStatesman]

Has anything changed since the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War 50 years ago?

Do the poor have more of less leverage than they did then?

Have conditions changed?

https://t.co/qiROcpezUb

[justin @JustinOngS]

.@harriszainul with the strongest quote in this weekend’s long read on Israel-Hamas mis/disinfo. The platforms - including this one - have far too much power

[CNA @ChannelNewsAsia]

IN FOCUS: How Israel-Hamas falsehoods on TikTok ‘cloud the public eye’ in Southeast Asia https://t.co/SAhL60eyV3

[justin @JustinOngS]

Worth a read for the YouGov poll results alone, this piece calls attention to an issue widely reported globally - but not so much as it should, in this part of the world. Kudos to @HweeMinCNA for the legwork. https://t.co/zfxeZYRFuU

[Charlotte Alter @CharlotteAlter]

Are human beings just brains and meat? Or is there something else that makes life worth living, something that can't be measured by an algorithm monitoring the levels of oxygen in your spleen?
https://t.co/8JnCqqcAaF

[Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow]

The reporting on Elon Musk I've been working on for @newyorker over the past year: https://t.co/spSZRu9QGG

[The Sunday Long Read @sundaylongread]

Get your tissues ready. @DaveWedge https://t.co/BETpvYwpjN

[Amit Katwala @amitkatwala]

The world is in the grips of a hidden epidemic.

More than 90% of young people in some Asian countries are myopic, with millions at risk of blindness, and levels rising in the West.

But in Taiwan, a doctor has uncovered a surprisingly simple solution

https://t.co/5O0L8kgIn0

[Erik Hoel @erikphoel]

1. Were the Mayans right?

From the charts 2012 was a clear cultural "tipping point' year, with teenagers being the most sensitive to it. For example, Reading and Math scores peaked in 2012 and have been declining ever since.

[Tony Woodlief @tonywoodlief]

“Anyone governing in the name of data is still making judgments.”

Thoughtful and crisply written essay on how invoking science to justify what are (and should be) political decisions undermines both science and the polity.

.@Harpers .@jasonwblakely

https://t.co/ByHqGrRYu2

[David Brooks @DavidBrooks224]

We in the educated class are always publicly speaking out for the marginalized, but somehow we always end up building systems that serve ourselves. https://t.co/vLGHYGKcse

[justin @JustinOngS]

@ChongJaIan @nfyahaya @ShibaniMahtani ST did attempt to shed some light on this last year.

[justin @JustinOngS]

Long month for the men in white. https://t.co/skNRUk5N8r

[Lydia Lam @LydiaLamCourt]

I don’t think anyone has done it before - I tried my best to break down the entire AHTC case simply for readers.

I was thrown in the deep end to cover this when I first started covering court for CNA in 2018.

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

"The statistics paint a picture of a society that is reluctant to invest in an uncertain future—one where many Chinese appear to be protesting with their wallets, wombs, and feet," @MichaelSchuman writes: https://t.co/RNjyvx5Ft5

[justin @JustinOngS]

@ChongJaIan Nostalgia not the way forward but are there alternatives to calling for more engagement ?

[CNA @ChannelNewsAsia]

CNA Explains: China’s soft panda power in a time of hardening geopolitical tensions https://t.co/C3TvdDpRnl

[justin @JustinOngS]

China, birthplace of COVID, lays tracks for a new global health crisis https://t.co/lku14bDiMe