What I have witnessed and documented over the past decade is technology’s godlike power to infect each of us with a virus of lies, pitting us against… - Maria Ressa

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What I have witnessed and documented over the past decade is technology’s godlike power to infect each of us with a virus of lies, pitting us against one another, igniting, even creating, our fears, anger, and hatred, and accelerating the rise of authoritarians and dictators around the world.

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About Maria Ressa

Maria Angelita Ressa, (born October 2, 1963) is a Filipino-American journalist and author. Before leaving to run the Philippine online news website Rappler, she was a lead investigative reporter in Southeast Asia for CNN. Together with Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov, she was awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for "their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace."

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Native Name: Maria Angelita Ressa
Alternative Names: Maria Angelita Aycardo Ressa Maria A. Ressa

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I think everyone in this room realizes that anger and hate only destroy. What do you do when that’s over? How do you build, right? Because in order to create, to build for the future, you have to move away from that. How well we survive this time of creative destruction, it really is, depends on each of us, on each of us fighting our individual battles of integrity, for integrity. We’ve got to jump in...

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