Twitter Quotes by Maria Ressa

10 Twitter quotes by Maria Ressa

Maria Ressa’s collection on Twitter reads like a briefing on the platform’s double‑edged sword for reporters. She highlights both the reach it offers and the threats it poses, delivering a balanced view in a compact format.

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When you're on social media, your brain is being rewired.

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The attacks against me and Rappler began appearing on Facebook in the summer of 2016. A year later President Rodrigo Duterte was…

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We know firsthand how social media and the law have been weaponized against perceived critics of the Duterte administration. We've been reporting…

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I think that social media platforms and technology have been the accelerator for the push for the populist-style administrations in democratically elected…

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Technology enabled Rappler's fast growth starting in 2012, but we were also among the first victims when social media was weaponized in 2016.

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The social media platforms have taken over the distribution of news globally. They treat a lie the same way you would treat…

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Ninety-seven percent of Filipinos on the Internet are on Facebook. And according to Hootsuite or We Are Social, in January 2019, Filipinos…

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If the social media platforms don't take the gatekeeping seriously they will kill the public sphere. If we don't get this right…

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“Facebook didn’t only provide a platform for those propagandists’ speech or even only enable them; in fact, it gave them preferential treatment…

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Any journalist who asked critical questions, anyone on social media who questioned about the extrajudicial killings was bombarded with abuse, threats of…

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