Defend Press Freedom
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2025 9:01 am
It always happens at opportune moments. The release of an article, the vote on a law... Moments when journalists must be discredited as much as possible. Moments when the truth must absolutely not be believed.
Many journalists are affected and to alert, Rappler made a sober video that you can watch here. “ ”
The use of Facebook, Twitter and also Google is detrimental greece cell phone number list to democracy here. Because if you insist on a lie, it spreads on the web, it ends up at the top of Google searches, then people believe it to be TRUE. And at the #IFJ, and more broadly in the world of journalism, there is still great astonishment at this credulity.
In the case of the major smear campaigns in the Philippines, the exchanges are made in the hundreds of thousands, sometimes even over a million shares! People are put in danger. Here, journalists, via the weapon of social networks which leads people on paths of hatred and violence.
Should this conference have been called " Democracy in danger via Facebook and others "? No, replies Maria Ressa, who is also working with the firm to find solutions... no... her message concerns the deep reason for her vocation as a journalist. " we need to fight. We need to stand up and fight back ."
Many journalists are affected and to alert, Rappler made a sober video that you can watch here. “ ”
The use of Facebook, Twitter and also Google is detrimental greece cell phone number list to democracy here. Because if you insist on a lie, it spreads on the web, it ends up at the top of Google searches, then people believe it to be TRUE. And at the #IFJ, and more broadly in the world of journalism, there is still great astonishment at this credulity.
In the case of the major smear campaigns in the Philippines, the exchanges are made in the hundreds of thousands, sometimes even over a million shares! People are put in danger. Here, journalists, via the weapon of social networks which leads people on paths of hatred and violence.
Should this conference have been called " Democracy in danger via Facebook and others "? No, replies Maria Ressa, who is also working with the firm to find solutions... no... her message concerns the deep reason for her vocation as a journalist. " we need to fight. We need to stand up and fight back ."