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born 1963 Philippines

Maria Angelita Ressa, (born October 2, 1963) is a Filipino-American journalist and author. Before leaving to run the Philippine online news website Rappler, she was a lead investigative reporter in Southeast Asia for CNN.

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What happens on social media doesn’t stay on social media. Online violence is real world violence.

Nobel Peace Prize Lecture (2021)

We decided to use the power of group dynamics and social networks to do something positive: spread hope.

How to Stand Up to a Dictator (2022)

Technology has proven that human beings have far more in common than we have differences.

How to Stand Up to a Dictator (2022)

My only crime is to be a journalist, to speak truth to power.

Time 100 Speech (2019)

I think we’re living through a very unique moment where again it proves that information is power. It's a completely chaotic time where technology has helped make facts disputable, eroded truth, and crippled trust.

Time 100 Speech (2019)

What you choose to do shapes the person you become.

How to Stand Up to a Dictator (2022)

In order to be the good, we have to BElieve THEre is GOOD in the world.

Nobel Peace Prize Lecture (2021)

My job is to hold power to account.

Interview with Democracy Now (2019)

Please ask yourself the same question my team and I ask every day: What are you willing to sacrifice for the truth?

How to Stand Up to a Dictator (2022)

The world we once knew is decimated. Now we have to decide what we want to create.

How to Stand Up to a Dictator (2022)

For journalists, for people at the front lines of trying to fight for truth, this is an existential moment for journalism and for democracy

Time 100 Speech (2019)

Now, please, with me, close your eyes. And imagine the world as it should be. A world of peace, trust and empathy, bringing out the best that we can be.

Nobel Peace Prize Lecture (2021)

Tech sucked up our personal experiences and data, organized it with artificial intelligence, manipulated us with it, and created behavior at a scale that brought out the worst in humanity.

How to Stand Up to a Dictator (2022)

there is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.

How to Stand Up to a Dictator (2022)

these leaders use anger and fear to divide and to conquer, they create and they live a politics of hate.

Time 100 Speech (2019)

I believe that Facebook represents one of the gravest threats to democracies around the world, and I am amazed that we have allowed our freedoms to be taken away by technology companies’ greed for growth and revenues.

How to Stand Up to a Dictator (2022)

It’s better to face your fear than to run from it because running won’t make the problem go away. When you face it, you have the chance to conquer it. That was how I began to define courage.

How to Stand Up to a Dictator (2022)

the breakdown of the rule of law globally was ignited by the lack of a democratic vision for the internet in the twenty-first century.

How to Stand Up to a Dictator (2022)

Today, an emergent wave of right-wing populist leaders uses social media to question and break down reality, triggering rage and paranoia on a bed of exponential lies. This is how fascism is normalized and where political outrage meets terrorism, the vanguard of mass violence.

How to Stand Up to a Dictator (2022)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Maria Ressa (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.