{"id":31073,"date":"2021-04-18T14:00:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T05:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/18\/facebook-and-fear-in-manila-maria-ressas-fight-for-facts"},"modified":"2021-04-18T14:00:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T05:00:54","slug":"facebook-and-fear-in-manila-maria-ressas-fight-for-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31073","title":{"rendered":"Facebook and fear in Manila: Maria Ressa\u2019s fight for facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-CNN reporter and founder of the news site Rappler on life under the relentless social media assault of the Duterte regime<\/p>\n<p>As terrible as the events were that played out on Capitol Hill on 6 January, Maria Ressa admits to feeling \u201ca small amount of relief\u201d about them. An ex-CNN bureau chief, and now the founder of her own news organisation, Rappler, she had spent the past two years sounding a warning about what she\u2019d seen happen in her native country, the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>There, a Facebook-fuelled tsunami of lies had assisted an authoritarian into power. And she had seen where that had led: to opponents of the state being killed in their homes or turning up dead in ditches. As a Filipino American with a foot in both countries \u2013 she calls herself \u201cthe first of the CNN hybrids\u201d \u2013 she was perfectly positioned to warn America about what happens when a populist president is allowed to spread out-of-control lies across a vast, unregulated tech platform. \u201cA lie told a million times becomes a fact,\u201d she repeated again and again.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/18\/facebook-and-fear-in-manila-maria-ressas-fight-for-facts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-CNN reporter and founder of the news site Rappler on life under the relentless social media assault of the Duterte regimeAs terrible as the events were that played out on Capitol Hill on 6 January, Maria Ressa admits to feeling \u201ca small amount of re&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,236,687,240,238,55,204,235,824,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-digital-media","category-facebook","category-maria-ressa","category-media","category-philippines","category-rodrigo-duterte","category-social-media","category-social-networking","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31074,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31073\/revisions\/31074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}