Amplify and increase
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2025 9:03 am
She is there and it is with all humility that this woman, elected person of the year 2018 by Time magazine, delivers her message whose title of the #IFJ is. " The mission of journalism".
Maria Ressa is a Filipino-American journalist. She has worked in Asia for over 25 years, most of which have been for CNN. She is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Rappler , a Filipino news site founded in 2010 and based on citizen journalism and crowdsourcing. And it is as a witness and victim of discrediting campaigns that Maria Ressa shares her experience with us today.
Raising the hate
She tells us how everything is organized on social networks to create, the greece cell phone number list hatred of people who disturb. Like her, or her site Rappler on which quality investigative reports are written. She dissects the manipulation by lies, fake news… their large-scale propagation. The steps through which the instigators carefully go, one by one, to succeed in discrediting journalists and their work.
In the case of the Philippines, it is Facebook that is used . It is often said that the internet is Facebook in this country. Almost everything goes through this channel. It is the information ecosystem in the Philippines.
So accounts are created, often bots, to launch fake news and are relayed by real people who go so far as to threaten Maria Ressa or other people. What upsets her most is that even young people fall into the trap.
Maria Ressa is a Filipino-American journalist. She has worked in Asia for over 25 years, most of which have been for CNN. She is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Rappler , a Filipino news site founded in 2010 and based on citizen journalism and crowdsourcing. And it is as a witness and victim of discrediting campaigns that Maria Ressa shares her experience with us today.
Raising the hate
She tells us how everything is organized on social networks to create, the greece cell phone number list hatred of people who disturb. Like her, or her site Rappler on which quality investigative reports are written. She dissects the manipulation by lies, fake news… their large-scale propagation. The steps through which the instigators carefully go, one by one, to succeed in discrediting journalists and their work.
In the case of the Philippines, it is Facebook that is used . It is often said that the internet is Facebook in this country. Almost everything goes through this channel. It is the information ecosystem in the Philippines.
So accounts are created, often bots, to launch fake news and are relayed by real people who go so far as to threaten Maria Ressa or other people. What upsets her most is that even young people fall into the trap.