Facebook changed our world, and in the Philippines, it really is the internet, in the end it

comes down to the tech platforms, social media in particular, will determine what gets
delivered to the people.

This database, this big data, is the story of how a robust democracy became a
dictatorship.

Psychological manipulation using technology. Marketing in general.

Free speech is being used to stifle free speech. Hate is being used to pound you into
silence and for all of our countries, how we will give free speech without the accesses of
people who want to manipulate this new technology?

The constitution of the Philippines gives me certain rights that protect my ability to do
my job, all of that was stripped away by the social media platforms. There is no
absolutely for the platforms to spread lies exponentially. You should not allow it to
spread.

In 2016, the campaign machinery of now President Duterte used Facebook and social
media to win an election. They didn’t stop there. We began to see these vicious attacks
on Facebook against anyone who questioned the killings and the drug war. They are
propagating disinformation on social media and that are used to control debate globally.

“Facebook is our internet,” Ressa said. “Where Facebook goes, the Philippines goes.
The weaponization of social media was followed by the weaponization of the law. This
is what’s happened to the gatekeepers, right? And when the gatekeepers move from
the journalists to technologists… lies spread faster than facts.”

You are fighting disinformation and the use of your data and yet you have Alexa?

How can you plan for the future if what we can become, if you don’t use it?
The part of the problem with old power right now is that they don’t understand new
technology. And part of the problem who build new technology is that they don’t
understand old power, that’s what needs to merge.

It’s okay to influence your psychological outlook, but it’s not okay to steal data.

Companies don’t know how to use social media.

Is he a leader with liberal values? Does he stand for things that the geopolitical actors
did not want? Who was behind those 30,000 fake accounts?

When our President Rodrigo Duterte was elected, the campaign machinery that helped
elect him was weaponized and who went after anyone who was critical of the drug war,
and also journalists were targeted.
Facebook became too toxic. Facebook and other social media giants are being
manipulated by governments and corporations, weakening democracies.