The Dictator's Playbook — with Maria Ressa

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🗓️ 5 November 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Maria Ressa is arguably one of the bravest journalists working in the Philippines today. As co-founder and CEO of the media site Rappler, she has withstood death threats, multiple arrests and a rising tide of populist fury that she first saw on Facebook, in the form of a strange and jarring personal attack. Through her story, she reveals, play by play, how an aspiring strongman can use social media to spread falsehoods, sow confusion, intimidate critics and subvert democratic institutions. Nonetheless, she argues Silicon Valley can reverse these trends, and fast. First, tech companies must "wake up," she says, to the threats they've unleashed throughout the Global South. Second, they must recognize that social media is intrinsically designed to favor the strongman over the lone dissident and the propagandist over the truth-teller, which is why it has become the central tool in every aspiring dictator's playbook.

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0:00.0	I remembered getting 90, 9.0 hate messages per hour and I went to Facebook and I said,
0:05.6	I think I need help here.
0:07.2	This is Maria Ressa, arguably one of the bravest journalists working in the Philippines today.
0:12.0	And they said, just go ahead and report it. journalists working in the Philippines today.
0:12.5	And they said, just go ahead and report it.
0:14.9	And I thought 24 hours in a day, 90 per hour,
0:17.8	even if it only takes me two minutes to report every single one,
0:20.8	it is impossible.
0:21.6	It should not be my responsibility.
0:23.4	Now Maria is not the type of person who shrinks from responsibility.
0:26.6	When a terrorist organization abducted her journalist colleagues, Maria
0:30.1	herself negotiated for their release. But for this particular threat, Maria didn't see how she or anyone in the Philippines
0:36.2	for that matter could get a handle on it.
0:38.8	Those 90 threats lobbed her way every hour were so much bigger than her inbox and a sign of how quickly
0:44.0	Facebook's influence had spread and taken hold in the Philippines. No organization
0:48.2	in the world has ever worked that way. I opened the Jakarta Bureau for CNN and it took me seven months of
0:56.0	negotiations to be able to open that bureau for the interests of both CNN and the
1:01.5	Indonesian government.
1:03.0	So I think fast growth, this exponential growth that
1:06.7	tech has enabled, came with a cost.
1:09.3	We were the first to feel that cost.
1:11.2	Maria and the citizens of the Philippines are still feeling that cost today, and if history is any
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