Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa: ‘It’s incredible we have to dance to Elon Musk’s tune on Twitter’ 🔴 From robhastings
. I will share this article online, and perhaps you are reading it now after seeing it there – while all the misinformation in other reports swirling around social media will no doubt be attracting millions more readers.
“I have more faith in people,” replies Ressa. “If people read and realise they’re being manipulated, they can demand better – and they should. That’s our only defence… How do you solve this problem? In the long term: education. The medium term is legislation. The short term is hand-to-hand combat, a person-to-person defence of democracy.”
And these platforms still have important emotional uses for people keeping in touch with relatives and friends. “My family lives in the Philippines, but I have family in the US and Europe. Somehow, we are connected.” Though she admits her own relatives have been divided by the online manipulation of Filipino politics, “because when Facebook took down Russian disinformation, some of my family’s accounts also went down”.
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