Ressa: Journalists need tech mastery to counter information wars


Full attention: A Rappler employee watching Ressa talk during a Zoom meeting at their office in Pasig city, Philippines. — AP

Using just 26 fake social media accounts, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa was able to spread falsehoods to over three million unsuspecting users and influence their views in a study she conducted.

With legal systems around the world unable to adequately punish perpetrators of falsehoods, “online impunity is real-world impunity”, she said.

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