Filipino Journalist Maria Ressa on Fighting for Democracy in the Age of Social Media

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Since 2016, Maria Ressa and her team of journalists at the Philippines-based news site Rappler — which she co-founded and serves as executive editor — have been squarely in the cross-ha…

, with Ressa’s plight taking center stage. Currently, she faces two cyber libel cases, one for which she was convicted in June and carries a sentence of up to six years in jail. In July, she pleaded “not guilty” to charges of tax evasion.

“In four years time, I’ve learned that the way to handle this is to keep doing our jobs and that’s part of the reason, every time I feel like I’m not doing my job, I work harder,” she says. “The more the government harasses me and Rappler and other journalists, the more I think, ‘We must be missing a story… What are we missing that they don’t want us to find?’”

“In the Philippines, 100 percent of Filipinos on the internet are on Facebook. So Facebook is our internet, but their algorithms are selective,” she observes. “They don’t actually just give you the facts. They’re not passive [in what] they choose and what they choose, inevitably, are lies laced with anger and hate. This is emotional manipulation.”

It’s a reality she has grappled and made her peace with. In her commencement speech to Princeton University’s class of 2020, she told young graduates to do what she has done to cope: embrace her fear.

 

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