The Tortoise interview: Maria Ressa

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Maria Ressa’s work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own government, has landed her in trouble with the most powerful man in the Philippines: President Duterte.
Hounded by the state, Maria has multiple arrest warrants against her name, and potentially more than 100 years behind bars to prepare for - while she stands trial for speaking the truth.
Maria’s story is told from the frontline of the digital war. Her book -How to Stand Up to a Dictator- is the story of how democracy dies by a thousand cuts. It maps a network of disinformation - a heinous web of cause and effect - that has netted the globe: from Duterte’s drug wars, to America’s Capitol Hill, to Britain’s Brexit, to Russian and Chinese cyber-warfare, to Facebook and Silicon Valley, to our own clicks and our own votes.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:00 Welcome
02:25 Think slow, not fast: the echo chambers of algorithms
07:26 Facebook frenemies & selling data clones
10:10 The story of Rappler: holding truth to power in the Philippines
24:10 Restricting press access:
27:34 Trouble with the law:
29:54 The attention economy is a problem everywhere
36:50 The data is clear, democracy is being rolled back to 1989 levels
40:35 The spinach version of TikTok vs the exported, opium version of TikTok
47:42 There's always hope: a person-to-person defence of democracy
51:44 The community is critical: cynicism is a tool of dictatorship as it leads to inaction
54:37 How can advertisers be more moral?
1:00:00 I don't have all the answers, but keep trying.

[@emillion4470]

"26 fake accounts can ripple, impact 3 million others... We manually counted this for 3 months"... Reminds me of Churchill who said: "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

[@susanna6103]

Thank you so much for inviting Maria Ressa. So enlightening.👍

[@petconcepcion]

Very educational. Learned a lot. Thanks, Maria Ressa.

[@EricPaoloSmith]

Great conversation!!

[@auroradeguinon3292]

Our modern hero

[@jonroyyubeleno532]

In her, courage is real. It infuses the truth eco-system.

[@naciobc]

Maria Ressa is the modern day Joan of Arc of journalism in the Philippines. My prayers for her safety when she returns to the Philippines where countless journalists have been killed.

[@restitutoreyes6176]

Hope you know the TRUTH of libel offending a private person not a government official on which she is convicted.

[@Gord4728]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@k31than]

Watching this, particularly between the mid and 3/4 of the way thru, made me feel like Maria could've or should've been in that Netflix documentary "The Social Dilemma"

[@mormonlacson8606]

Pride of the Philippines...only paid trolls hate her. Kudos!!!! Maria

[@crisantorayos2195]

ANG BABAENG YAN SAKSAKAN NG KASINUNGALINGAN.

[@dramaclub9850]

Yuck

[@jenniferinocencio8945]

@@dramaclub9850 troll!!!!!

[@glennluces2784]

Dumb gullibles on the rise!!

[@sharrey48]

Enlightenment, Frightening. I pray for her safety she gives the courage to not go quietly!!!_😢

[@noliesquijo3772]

TO NONE PINOYS BRING RESSA WITH YOU. ITS FREE...

[@ninecatsmagee8384]

"Fact checking is prior restraint." Appalling.

[@MenyAng-angco-nh3cp]

I admire Maria for fighting a big giant

[@CraigSakada]

Maria Ressa will be discussed in schools 100 years from now. To look back and say, “this is what the global society did wrong.” I just hope that this issue doesn’t end up in a blood bath for the world to learn a new lesson in history.

[@adelaidabartoloma6746]

60 percent be aware for our democracy because of the digitalization

[@reynaldoaquino751]

YES! Let's fight for the truth! Fight Ressa's lies!!

[@jondowee]

Huwag tularan is Don't emulate/imitate.

[@vermont741]

I totally get Maria Ressa’s points, esp her comparison about ‘ants’. But, if we were to think ‘outside’ - maybe ‘democracy’ nor ‘authoritarianism’ will work in the future?! Maybe, ‘something’ else will evolve? We still don’t know what that is, but, i think it will… Hopefully, in the next two decades. Bcoz we have climate change to deal with. Which if you ask me, is the more exigent issue.

[@jamesk8s1]

Fingers crossed. Can comprehension catch up.....hmmmmm

[@lawrencefuentes3983]

Ask ressa about the cybel libel case against her where the court convicted her. Aside from tax evasion

[@adelaidabartoloma6746]

Abusing the impunity

[@lawrencefuentes3983]

Cybel l😮bel the case where you are convicted. This American is totally ignorant of the case. He just talks basing on rumors and lie

[@xiaomoogle]

The man interviewing her is British, troll

[@MDF4072]

nako delewan itong mga ito hahhaa.

[@kelsan5633]

ok lang kesa naman sa pulangaw at dds na tulad mo... Pwe!

[@jacobN2022]

@@kelsan5633 31 minions sila hahahha kakain ng nutribun kac

[@mbl.333]

Typical MO of brainwashed weak minded f*ols like you Name calling is all people got 😂😂

[@whitephoenix1513]

Paid troll. That’s what you are

[@MDF4072]

sarcasm ito ha.

[@cherryservancia9394]

Shame on her!!!

[@Gord4728]

di ka ba nahiya Maria?

[@mannypakyaw3773]

ikaw dapat mahiya sa tanong mo

[@andrew1470]

The Western people love her so much I wish they can just take her away forever

[@CheckmateJD]

because you do not know her, only the mask she wear. in reality. she is just toying with you, sad to say.

[@franco555]

A propaganda machine, spread misfo.

[@jojodecastro7666]

the nber one FAKE FAKE Maria Ressa

[@Gord4728]

you were put to jail for libel! tell the truth

[@mannypakyaw3773]

You will be momentarily detained as a part of the procedure, and you will have the opportunity to post bail. If you are the subject of an accusation, it does not automatically mean that you are guilty of the charges.

[@nenitatio5161]

I guess some of your talking are lies, they don’t pay the tax that’s why its closed

[@pinoyuzie1557]

What will put her in jail is the act of destroying the reputation of other human being and committing LIBEL. By violating the constitution of the Philippines and creating a media organization that is US Funded - a crime in PH all journalist know too well. By not respecting Human Rights of other people she will go to jail. That is her values like her US citizenship.

[@mbl.333]

Lol You are out of her league And you are ok with brutal ejks Noted! Lol

[@whitephoenix1513]

Paid troll. That’s what you are

[@dramaclub9850]

@@mbl.333 cancel culture by your idol

[@jenniferinocencio8945]

@@dramaclub9850 and your idols are murderers and corrupt

[@legolas1203]

How about the case of cyber L for spreading fake news about a business man?. All about of her is fake lol..

[@kelsan5633]

i idolize her..... compare to you stupid!

[@legolas1203]

@@kelsan5633📌 now I can see the similarities.

[@mbl.333]

How about the brutal ejks? Lol