Maria Ressa: "Facts lead to truth, and truth leads to trust."

This week we have our first guest, and what a guest! Maria Ressa is the executive editor and CEO of Rappler, an independent news site in the Philippines. She has been under constant social media attacks and arrested twice because of her dogged fight for democracy and free information in her country. She was named a Time 2019 person of the year. She spoke to me at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy. Here's your Media in 60 Seconds, with Maria Ressa.

Is global press freedom under attack and how?

As early as November 2017, we saw the studies: Freedom House came out and said in 27 countries around the world, cheap armies on social media are tearing down democracy, rolling back democracy. The year after that, the Oxford Computational Propaganda Project said that number went up — doubled. It's a very difficult time with technology which once empowered, now is being used to tear down, is being used to replace facts with fiction, is being used to create alternative realities. We've heard these words, "fake news" right? It's a time when journalists have to come together and fight for the facts, because facts lead to truth and truth leads to trust.

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