We hold the line series#
Projecting a series of data visualizations on the screen, Ressa illustrated the nearly instantaneous speed with which attacks on the media spread globally via Facebook and Twitter. Repeating a quote she used in an interview with Al Jazeera, Ressa said, “If you can make people believe lies are the facts, then you can control them.” Then, you say it’s your opponents and the journalists who lie.” “If you want to rip the heart out of a democracy, you go after the facts. “A lie told 1,000 times becomes the truth,” Ressa said. Ressa said these campaigns flooded the social media ecosystem with disinformation. In August 2016 after Duterte’s rise to power, Rappler began to investigate “patriotic trolling” - state-sponsored online hate and harassment campaigns designed to silence and intimidate. Noting that 97% of Filipinos on the internet are on Facebook, she said “we are a petri dish” for how social media can be used to manipulate audiences. In her talk “Fighting Back with Data,” Ressa spoke with students in Robertson Hall, demonstrating how Rappler has harnessed data from social media to root out and expose how authoritarian regimes like Duterte’s threaten the foundations of democracy. Eisgruber followed by a meeting with Dean of the College Jill Dolan had a lunchtime talk and Q&A with students co-hosted by the Office of Communications, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the journalism program and recorded a pending episode of the “She Roars” podcast, which spotlights the voices of change-making women at Princeton.ĭenise Applewhite, Office of Communications The power of fact-based journalism On April 9, she met with President Christopher L. On April 8, Ressa met with students and faculty in the Program in Journalism over dinner and sat with The Daily Princetonian staff for an interview. Ressa tucked in a visit to Princeton on her way to the 10th annual Women in the World Summit in New York City, where she will be a featured speaker alongside other female journalists to discuss combatting misinformation and speaking truth to power. She is the author of two books, “Seeds of Terror: An Eyewitness Account of al-Qaeda’s Newest Center of Operations in Southeast Asia,” and “From Bin Laden to Facebook.” In 2018, she was named TIME magazine's "Person of the Year" and won the prestigious Golden Pen of Freedom Award from the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers.
We hold the line free#
Ressa has been honored around the world for her work in fighting disinformation, fake news and attempts to silence the free press. Displaying her signature resilience and determination to shine a spotlight on the government’s harassment, she told audiences throughout her visit: “I tweeted from the back of the police car.” She has posted bail eight times and been arrested twice, most recently at the Manila airport on March 29 after a trip to San Francisco. Recently, Rappler’s reporting on the authoritarian administration of President Rodrigo Duterte has spurred repeated intimidation tactics by the government to discredit Ressa and the media outlet.
Ressa co-founded Rappler six years ago and has worked as a journalist in Asia for more than 30 years since accepting a Fulbright Fellowship in the Philippines after graduating the same year as the People Power Revolution in that country. She also felt safe - which is not her everyday modus operandi. The Nose steps forward too and squashes me between them.In a whirlwind 24-hour visit to Princeton on April 8 and 9, Maria Ressa, a 1986 alumna and CEO and executive editor of the Philippines-based online news organization, spoke with students, faculty and the campus community in forums large and small. I step forward until I’m uncomfortably close to the Pickaberry woman, to hear what’s being said. The bank lady and the lady whose money was eaten are back at the counter.
I step backwards to force the man behind to give me some space. “Bloody hell,” he says to nobody in particular. “Sorry about this,” the victim says to the line and, because this is New Zealand, we all make sounds to show it’s absolutely fine then go back to seething.Īnother man joins the line.
We hold the line windows#
* Little lockdowns, big worries and a return to standing at windows * Yes minister, it's time to use the c-word for the state of our hospitals * Sorry Ray, but I'm tired of you and tired of saying goodbyes Something has gone wrong with the money machine, causing it to eat a woman’s cash. Initially there was another person behind the counter, but she’s gone now. They’re talking about online banking or something, while I’m eavesdropping and writing this column on my phone. There’s one person behind the counter, who’s been helping the same person since I got here.
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