Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa shows a t-shirt while she delivers a speech during the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony at the Oslo City Hall in Oslo, Norway, on Thursday, December 10, 2021. - Reuters
OSLO, Dec 10(AFP): Accepting her Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, Philippine journalist Maria Ressa launched a vitriolic attack against American tech giants, accusing them of fuelling a flood of "toxic sludge" on social media.
Ressa, the co-founder of news website Rappler who won this year's prize together with Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov, attacked the technology industry which "has allowed a virus of lies to infect each of us, pitting us against each other, bringing out our fears, anger and hate, and setting the stage for the rise of authoritarians and dictators around the world."
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