Recode Decode: How disinformation poisoned a ‘Facebook nation’

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Rappler co-founder Maria Ressa talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about doing investigative journalism in the Philippines, where social media has emboldened an autocratic president. In this episode: (01:20) Ressa's background and the People Power Movement; (05:49) How she became a TV journalist on CNN and ABS-CBN; (10:35) Leaving ABS-CBN for the internet; (15:18) Starting Rappler; (25:54) "The Philippines is the cautionary tale for the United States"; (30:55) Bots and Facebook's non-response; (42:36) The lawsuits against Rappler; (48:37) What Ressa wants Facebook to do; (50:42) Why she's going back to the Philippines Notes from our sponsors:LEGO: In today's show you heard advertising content from The LEGO Store. With LEGO, every gift has a story. Start your story today at https://LEGO.build/Recode-Ship Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sabotage, hired goons and a landfill in Utah.
0:05.0	How Steve Jobs' revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa, earned a brief
0:10.7	second life and then was buried for good.
0:14.8	Watch the Verges documentary, Lisa's final act, now on YouTube.
0:20.1	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Editor-Large of Recode.
0:25.4	You may know me as a very model of a modern media mogul, but in my spare time I talked
0:29.8	to tech and you're listening to Recode Decode from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:33.9	Today in the red chair, I am honored to have Maria Ressa.
0:36.8	She's the CEO of Rappler.
0:38.2	It's a news website based in the Philippines that started as a Facebook page before co-founding
0:43.8	the company in 2011.
0:44.8	She was an investigative reporter at CNN and she's a hero in journalism.
0:49.5	You'll find out why as you start to talk about it.
0:51.8	She has been doing some stuff that puts her in danger and puts herself in danger of
0:56.2	what's happening in the Philippines, which is irreprehensible.
0:59.8	In any case, welcome to Recode Decode.
1:01.9	Thanks for having me.
1:02.9	Maria, I want you to tell your story.
1:05.0	You gave a speech.
1:06.0	You just won an award at the International Center for Foreign Journalists at an event.
1:10.3	I was at.
1:11.8	You gave a speech talking about what's happening.
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