From Disinformation to Trolls to Hate Speech: Southeast Asia as the World’s Social Media Laboratory
Recorded on Friday, July 17, 2020
Jonathan Corpus Ong, Associate Professor of Global Digital Media at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Ross Tapsell, a senior lecturer and researcher on Southeast Asia media at the Australian National University, discusses why and how Southeast Asia is at the forefront of “innovations” in social media and disinformation. They explore new trends including the mobilization of click armies, fighting back against state-sponsored trolls, and the surge of anti-China hate speech in the region. They give their views on where the social media and disinformation production space is headed and ask what Facebook’s Oversight Board will mean to the region.
