![]() “These online attacks on social media have a purpose, they are targeted, they are used like a weapon,” said the former CNN journalist. Ressa has been the target of intense social-media hatred campaigns from President Rodrigo Duterte’s supporters, which she said were aimed at destroying her and Rappler’s credibility. “Beyond that, if you don’t have facts, you don’t’ have a shared reality, so you can’t solve the existential problems of climate, coronavirus.” If you don’t have any of these, you don’t have a democracy,” she said. “If you have no facts, you can’t have truths, you can’t’ have trust. Ressa shared the Nobel with Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov on Friday, for what the committee called braving the wrath of the leaders of the Philippines and Russia to expose corruption and misrule, in an endorsement of free speech under fire worldwide.įacebook has become the world’s largest distributor of news and “yet it is biased against facts, it is biased against journalism,” Ressa said. Article contentĪ representative for Facebook in the Philippines did not respond to requests for comment on Ressa’s remarks. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. ![]()
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