If you know who Maria Ressa is or read her book, How to Stand Up to a Dictator, then you'll know who Rodrigo Duterte is and why this is such important news.
Charged by the ICC with crimes against humanity.
Many thought this day would never come, but justice and accountability are just as real as raw power.
#JonStewart & Nobel Peace Prize winner and Rappler CEO #MariaRessa “discuss the decline of #democracy in the #US and the #Philippines, the misuse of digital platforms, global shifts, ways to protect American democracy…” | 7 March 2025 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jsHoX9ZpA_M
#Meta is ushering in a ‘world without facts’, says #Nobel #peaceprize winner
#MariaRessa warns of ‘dangerous times’ for #journalism and #democracy after move to end #factchecking
The American-Filipino journalist said Mark #Zuckerberg’s move to relax content #moderation on the #Facebook and #Instagram platforms would lead to a “world without facts” and that was “a world that’s right for a #dictator”. “Mark Zuckerberg says it’s a #freespeech issue – that’s completely wrong”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/08/facebook-end-factchecking-nobel-peace-prize-winner-maria-ressa
'#NobelPeacePrize winner #MariaRessa has said #Meta’s decision to end #factChecking on its platforms and remove restrictions on certain topics means “extremely dangerous times” lie ahead for #journalism, #democracy and #socialMedia users'
Listen to Maria
She's been speaking truth to power in the #Philippines for decades, one of the most dangerous countries in the world for #journalists
I greatly admire her and if anyone knows what they're talking about here, it's her
Meta is ushering in a ‘world without facts’, says Nobel peace prize winner.
Maria Ressa warns of ‘dangerous times’ for journalism and democracy after move to end factchecking in US
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/08/facebook-end-factchecking-nobel-peace-prize-winner-maria-ressa #META #Journalism #MariaRessa #Factchecking #Propaganda #Facebook #Instagram #FreeSpeech #1A
Nobel laureate #MariaRessa urges #BigTech to act now:
“There is no room to duck. This is gonna be the moment where, a decade from now, you’re gonna wanna look back and know you did everything you could. Everything. Because the world will be transformed.”
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Back in early 2024, I told y’all it was gonna be a wild...
On #msnbc today was #mariaressa who was warning about #Russiandisinformation and TOLD Google at their Mountainview head office. A few months later, on #jan6 she was more aware she was right
She was asked by the MSNBC host #NicolleWallace did Google get back to you about this? No, she said
She also mentioned (in her home country) that #ferdinandmarcos stole about 10 billion USD in the 1980s, seems WILD is worldwide
The AI series: AI and Surveillance Capitalism | Studio B: Unscripted
https://digitalcourage.video/videos/watch/178f58f7-4f35-47dd-be2e-32984d7d694a
Addendae 1
Thailand threatens to ban Facebook over misleading ads
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/thailand-facebook-1.6943669
* Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa / Rappler thread above - who spends sig. discussion of irreparable harm [knowingly!] caused by Facebook specifically, social media generally
* clicks = money; trumps everything
* Thailand: Facebook not doing enough to screen legitimacy of ads
* led to hundreds of thousands of people victim to financial scams
An impromptu discussion last evening loosely centered on oligarchs like Elon Musk mentioned (@Tristan ):
https://mastodon.social/@Tristan@gaygeek.social/110812672235751504
"I'm currently reading "How to Stand up to a Dictator" by Maria Ressa. ..."
I looked over the book this morning and it looks like a must-read, demonstratingh the power of individuals/small groups to positively & substantially influence the world, locally & beyond. 
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How to Stand Up to a Dictator
Maria Ressa
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/how-to-stand-up-to-a-dictator-maria-ressa?variant=40178507874338
"When #facts are attacked and dismissed, journalists become activists." #MariaRessa #ZEG2023 #Tbilisi #journalism #truth #zeg
People I'd like to play Microscope with today:
(#Microscope is a "a fractal role-playing game of epic histories by Ben Robbins" https://www.lamemage.com/microscope/ can you imagine playing a collaborative storytelling game with NK Jemisin!?)
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Maria Ressa on Colbert:
Social media uses free speech to stifle free speech.
"You don't know what freedom means until you are about to lose it"
Full interview:
https://www.cbs.com/shows/video/iDVVqf_Pz8xONnX_S6EQ9_vIDRJ_cWhe/
Thank you #MariaRessa
This Colbert interview with Maria Ressa is short but packed with insights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpWevZ5yQz8
Maria Ressa is a journalist, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and writer of "How to Stand Up to a Dictator".
In this interview, she talks about how Facebook, Twitter, and some other forms of Social Media function as a component of Surveillance Capitalism and use their fact-distorting power to undermine democracy.
"If you don't have facts, you can't have truth.
Without truth, you can't have trust.
Without these three, you have no shared reality.
We can't solve any problems.
We have no democracy.
That's what social media has done: is has come in and used 'free speech' to stifle free speech."
That time you’re scouring the shelves at the bookstore for a specific book only to realize it’s not out yet. 
Anyhoo, Maria Ressa’s new book, “How to Stand Up to a Dictator” comes out next week. You should check it out!
#amreading #journalism #MariaRessa #pressfreedom #humanrights
„We exhibit reptile sides of ourselves when we’re whipped into a horde, fine – but what if social media can turn us into our mob-selves without us even having to get off the sofa?“
(Zoe Williams, in a highly recommended interview with Nobel Prize laureate #MariaRessa on dangers for #democracy, mob dynamics and #SocialMedia)
