Maria Ressa tells it like it is

and faced 103 years in prison in the Philippines for doing so

Nobel Prize winning journalist Maria Ressa warns of authoritarianism in the US: “This is a pivotal moment"

"It's the violence and that comes from the tech because online violence is real world violence; and women and the fracture lines of society is exactly what that pounds. And that's part of the reason the world is where we are today.
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"These are the ways democracy slides. It's first technology as an enabler and an accelerant, because the design of social media prioritizes the spread of lies over facts, and if you use fear anger and hate it spreads 10 times faster.
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"Without facts you can't have truth
Without truth you can't have trust
The only government that exists without trust is a dictatorship."

The whole interview is a must-listen. That insight "online violence is real world violence; and women and the fracture lines of society is exactly what that pounds" really jumped out at me, because we've seen it pound women for years and years.