'When it became a battle of facts, journalism became activism,' says the Nobel laureate and Rappler CEO at one of the London stops of her book launch.
LONDON, United Kingdom – “I sound like an activist; I’m not, I’m a journalist,” Maria Ressa said on a rainy Wednesday morning in London.
“But when it became a battle of facts, journalism became activism. We need to do something otherwise we lose the last two minutes of democracy,” said Ressa, the CEO of Rappler and co-recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, at a talk at the University of Westminster in London. Ressa said that when news is distributed in big tech platforms, surveillance capitalism works in a way that “it encourages bad journalism.”
Ressa echoed concerns that TikTok, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, has links to Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Communist Party. “I think TikTok is part of a geopolitical power play and we have to be careful with our privacy,” Ressa said. “It has two codes: It kept the spinach for China and exported the opioid to the rest of us.”
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