“You won’t appreciate Princeton until you are out,” Ressa said. Tom Weber, a 1989 alumnus and contributing editor of TIME, opened the Q&A, asking Ressa what she took away from her Princeton education and her advice for students. The reason why I can stand up to my government is that I see the data, I see it’s manipulation.” Journalism is a truth-telling role, and it is increasingly dangerous to tell the truth. “The journalism is the food that we feed communities of action. Rappler uses “the fusion of tech and data and journalism to build communities of action,” Ressa said. We are Rappler and we will hold the line.” Ressa said she and her newsroom, which is staffed primarily by women, continued to stand firm in their resolve against a misogynous regime: “We did not duck, we did not hide. Inflammatory tweets laced with hate language about Ressa traveled around the world. For example, after Rappler published a conversation between President Trump and Duterte, a hashtag campaign #ArrestMariaRessa was created by an account in the Philippines, then jumped to other countries via social media posts.
#WE HOLD THE LINE SERIES#
Projecting a series of data visualizations on the screen, Ressa illustrated the nearly instantaneous speed with which attacks on the media spread globally via Facebook and Twitter. Repeating a quote she used in an interview with Al Jazeera, Ressa said, “If you can make people believe lies are the facts, then you can control them.” Then, you say it’s your opponents and the journalists who lie.” “If you want to rip the heart out of a democracy, you go after the facts. “A lie told 1,000 times becomes the truth,” Ressa said. Ressa said these campaigns flooded the social media ecosystem with disinformation. In August 2016 after Duterte’s rise to power, Rappler began to investigate “patriotic trolling” - state-sponsored online hate and harassment campaigns designed to silence and intimidate. Noting that 97% of Filipinos on the internet are on Facebook, she said “we are a petri dish” for how social media can be used to manipulate audiences. In her talk “Fighting Back with Data,” Ressa spoke with students in Robertson Hall, demonstrating how Rappler has harnessed data from social media to root out and expose how authoritarian regimes like Duterte’s threaten the foundations of democracy.
Eisgruber followed by a meeting with Dean of the College Jill Dolan had a lunchtime talk and Q&A with students co-hosted by the Office of Communications, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the journalism program and recorded a pending episode of the “She Roars” podcast, which spotlights the voices of change-making women at Princeton.ĭenise Applewhite, Office of Communications The power of fact-based journalism On April 9, she met with President Christopher L. On April 8, Ressa met with students and faculty in the Program in Journalism over dinner and sat with The Daily Princetonian staff for an interview. Ressa tucked in a visit to Princeton on her way to the 10th annual Women in the World Summit in New York City, where she will be a featured speaker alongside other female journalists to discuss combatting misinformation and speaking truth to power. She is the author of two books, “Seeds of Terror: An Eyewitness Account of al-Qaeda’s Newest Center of Operations in Southeast Asia,” and “From Bin Laden to Facebook.” In 2018, she was named TIME magazine's "Person of the Year" and won the prestigious Golden Pen of Freedom Award from the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers.
#WE HOLD THE LINE FREE#
Ressa has been honored around the world for her work in fighting disinformation, fake news and attempts to silence the free press. Displaying her signature resilience and determination to shine a spotlight on the government’s harassment, she told audiences throughout her visit: “I tweeted from the back of the police car.” She has posted bail eight times and been arrested twice, most recently at the Manila airport on March 29 after a trip to San Francisco. Recently, Rappler’s reporting on the authoritarian administration of President Rodrigo Duterte has spurred repeated intimidation tactics by the government to discredit Ressa and the media outlet.
Ressa co-founded Rappler six years ago and has worked as a journalist in Asia for more than 30 years since accepting a Fulbright Fellowship in the Philippines after graduating the same year as the People Power Revolution in that country. She also felt safe - which is not her everyday modus operandi. In a whirlwind 24-hour visit to Princeton on April 8 and 9, Maria Ressa, a 1986 alumna and CEO and executive editor of the Philippines-based online news organization, spoke with students, faculty and the campus community in forums large and small.
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