Troll Farm Prober Gets $200K Funding for New Research

Jonathan Corpus Ong

After his noteworthy research on political troll farms and fake news production in the Philippines, Filipino disinformation researcher Jonathan Corpus Ong is embarking on a new study on the human cost of disinformation which affects civil society workers and journalists. He’s one of the 28 scholars selected from among 300 applicants nominated by their respective institutions. Ong was awarded a $200,000 stipend for the said endeavor (See ABS-CBN News for story).