Professional Affiliation

Associate Professor of Global Digital Media at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Expert Bio

Jonathan Corpus Ong, PhD, is Associate Professor of Global Digital Media at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst. His research on the shadowy political trolling industries in Southeast Asia uses ethnography to understand the identities and motivations of disinformation producers. His policy engagement with the Philippines' election commission led to policy change in social media political advertising in the 2019 Philippines Elections. He is currently Research Fellow at the Shorenstein Center of Harvard Kennedy School where he studies 1) Covid-19 racism and disinformation, 2) conspiracy theory in tarot and astrology online communities, and 3) the human costs of targeted harassment from the perspective of communications and tech workers in human rights organizations.