Whose Truth?: Online women haters
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Attacked on social media - how Nobel Prize laureate Maria Ressa came under fire for doing her job as a journalist in the Philippines, covering the presidency of Rodrigo Duterte. She talks to Babita Sharma about the fight to stop social media being used to spread lies and hate against powerful women. Babita also speaks to two female digital pioneers. Lucina Di Meco is the co-founder of the US-based group #ShePersisted, which addresses the digital threat faced by women in politics. Audrey Pe is founder of the non-profit organisation WiTech, which aims to inspire young people to use technology to bring positive change.
This content was created as a co-production between Nobel Prize Outreach and the BBC. Image of Maria Ressa: Getty Images
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| 0:00.0 | We believed in social media for social good, right? |
| 0:05.0 | Like, so we drank the Kool-Aid. |
| 0:07.0 | It went wrong after Rodrigo Duterte was elected president. |
| 0:13.7 | Within a few hours of his oath taking, |
| 0:16.3 | you know now we trace the first killing |
| 0:18.7 | of the drug war in Metro Manila. |
| 0:21.6 | President-elect, Roa Duterte. |
| 0:26.0 | In 2016, Rodrigo Duterte was elected President of the Philippines in a landslide victory. |
| 0:33.0 | His brand of populism was based around his war on drugs. |
| 0:37.0 | The formalities over, the now president Duterte addressed his country. |
| 0:42.0 | He told them a war on a crime and corruption would be at the heart of his administration. |
| 0:47.0 | A policy of shooting suspected dealers and addicts with no trial resulted in thousands of deaths and |
| 0:54.2 | international condemnation. Duterte himself told the BBC he'd shot people |
| 1:00.1 | even before he became president. |
| 1:02.0 | I killed about three of them because there was three of them. |
| 1:05.0 | I literally know how many bullets from my gun went inside their bodies, |
| 1:11.0 | but it happened. |
| 1:12.0 | And I said I cannot lie about it. |
| 1:14.6 | Do you think that makes you fit for the job of president? |
| 1:17.0 | Yes of course. |
| 1:18.0 | Given the problems of my country yes. |
| 1:20.6 | But it wasn't just drug users in Duterte sites. |
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