Best quotes by Maria Ressa on Social Media

Checkout quotes by Maria Ressa on Social Media

  • If the social media platforms don't take the gatekeeping seriously they will kill the public sphere. If we don't get this right in 2020 you can open a decade or longer of a descent into fascism. And it will be global because platforms are global.
    - Maria Ressa
  • Any journalist who asked critical questions, anyone on social media who questioned about the extrajudicial killings was bombarded with abuse, threats of violence death threats from trolls and bots and these fake Facebook accounts.
    - Maria Ressa
  • The social media platforms have taken over the distribution of news globally. They treat a lie the same way you would treat a fact.
    - Maria Ressa
  • Ninety-seven percent of Filipinos on the Internet are on Facebook. And according to Hootsuite or We Are Social, in January 2019, Filipinos spend the most time on the Internet, and they spend the most time on social media globally.
    - Maria Ressa
  • I think that social media platforms and technology have been the accelerator for the push for the populist-style administrations in democratically elected presidents.
    - Maria Ressa
  • When you're on social media, your brain is being rewired.
    - Maria Ressa
  • Technology enabled Rappler's fast growth starting in 2012, but we were also among the first victims when social media was weaponized in 2016.
    - Maria Ressa
  • We know firsthand how social media and the law have been weaponized against perceived critics of the Duterte administration. We've been reporting on it from the start.
    - Maria Ressa