Firing Line
Maria Ressa
12/1/2023 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Maria Ressa discusses how the spread of false news on social media threatens democracy.
Maria Ressa, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist who faces prison time for standing up to authoritarianism in the Philippines, discusses how the spread of false news through social media threatens democracy and the importance of a free press.
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Firing Line
Maria Ressa
12/1/2023 | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Maria Ressa, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist who faces prison time for standing up to authoritarianism in the Philippines, discusses how the spread of false news through social media threatens democracy and the importance of a free press.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>> She risks her own life to tell the truth.
A Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist this week on "Firing Line."
>> We can continue down the path we're on and descend further into fascism, or we can choose to fight for a better world.
>> Her work as a prominent journalist in the Philippines makes Maria Ressa a target of online hate and of the Filipino government, which has convicted her on false charges >> Ressa also has a warning for the role U.S. social-media companies play in amplifying disinformation and eroding democracy around the world.
>> It's that lies are rewarded.
It's that simple, right?
By design.
Who enabled that?
Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook.
>> I spoke to Ressa as she visited the United States just days before returning to an uncertain future in the Philippines.
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