A year awaiting trial while the philippines locked up on al jazeera. Digital media and maria ressa is the founder of all the inside. Riyadh 40 years if they can use it is whatever power doesnt like the president of the philippines abroad rico deter day says he wants to kill as many people involved with drugs doesnt possible and lists his critics as a public enemy. Crap learn an online use site known to be critical of the government and its license revoked and he weeks ago. An goal is to silence dissent when people dont know what is real and what is faith when facts dont matter then the voice with the loudest megaphone gains more power you really have im facing 7 cases some of which can put me in jail up to 15 years. Now rock blues boss says a war of attrition is on the way when she and her colleagues are determined to weave your stuff we know we know that arrest warrant has been issued obviously. It makes you feel bad but i think its like right now this is the time to fight this is the time to tell people here heres the mind and you have to make sure that our government doesnt cross it because when it does were no longer in the. I am a pretend millennial but im turning 5555 years old wow ive been a journalist for. More than 30 years. Alecks up play best play list resuming spanish. When our president pretty good detector was selected the Campaign Machinery that helped elect him was weaponized and went after anyone who was critical of the drug war and also journalists in particular were targeted. This is a war for troops and the biggest casualty in the world for is how many people have been killed in the drug war im at the front lines i feel it i know it i have the data to prove it heres what happened in the philippines when facebook became too toxic i watch alexa ranking every day which is a website ranking of of all where computer lupino school and before. Its aleck so. It doesnt really want to yes why are you buying this information. And you have a. Ok new plan for the future of what we can become a few dont try it part of the problem with the old power right now is they dont understand new technology and part of the problem with the people who build the new technology is they dont understand old power thats what needs to merge. Facebook changed. And in the philippines it really is thing internet. The journalist will escape the 1st thats dead. In the head it comes down to the tech life forms social media in particular will determine what gets delivered to people. In january 28th the government of the philippines tried to shut rappler down were being investigated and that were facing legal cases one on ownership that could land me in prison for anywhere from 5 to 15 years. The court of appeals came out with a decision after midnight that night our appeal to harassment it is to distract us it is to stop us from reporting its to intimidate us so we dont. So we dont challenge. I think that the biggest wake up call for the government was the day after they they tried to shut down rappler. There was a Global Reaction to it so i dont think they counted on that. They also didnt count that raptor would fight. Rappler was a dream. In 2011 group of friends and i kind of that theres this new technology that is that we cant completely try out in the Traditional Networks because everything that made traditional media successful would go against what we wanted to do. Was. Going to connect tweak something on the. Trip post. Lets post that story thats the best statement glenn. Yeah we started with 12 people 4 or 5 of us were about 40 at that point. And and then we hired the smartest 20 somethings we could find. Is a good luck with that with the mug yeah. I want to how do i fit with it i think its largely unfixable i mean ive been trying to fix a for 40 years and thats when i start because youre here from the London School of economics i will introduce you to pomeranz and use that a lot of the groundbreaking work on looking at russia this information. Peter pomerantz of welcome to manila let me just figure out were being manipulated their dissent from asian and misinformation campaigns by both state actors and private interests what do we do about it theres a much deeper question is that social media has kind of few a new type of. What i might term populism is much more emotional. And with an enemy very abstract one who is blocking your very private grievances the establishment the elite foreigners doesnt matter so you you actually wrote a lot about russian this information how would you define think about it from the point of view of a leader with author a tarion tendencies so back in the 20th century you could you could shut off your population. With censorship right you could just block off t. V. Channels you cant do that anymore so instead of trying to censor things you spread as much cynicism as possible you on the mind the idea of trust you say yeah maybe our media isnt perfect the b. B. C. C. N. N. Theyre all bought i want to undermine the idea that there is any kind of truth out there that all this kind of leftism ocean and so only the most emotional. And viscerally emotional be the weapons it seem like in the short term only the tech giants have the ability to quickly fix certain things if we start uniting. The forces of good. Diversity we could be tomorrow it is true. Right now who not only is it started it started we need a little bit of maybe some resources to help with out so we start acting sort of strategically. Facebook has admitted that the philippines is patient 0 in the war against this information 2016 the Campaign Machinery of now president to tear down used facebook and social media to win an election but they didnt stop there we began to see these vicious attacks on facebook against anyone who questioned the killings in the drug war and in october i wrote this 3 part series on the propaganda war when we released it i was attacked the Propaganda Machine came after us with our gang in then it was immediate you know ive been called every animal you can think of my sexual life has been dissected and at the beginning i faced it like a traditional journalist where you try to fight it and you realize no you cant its not built that you can you dont fight this by looking at content you fight this by looking at networks and looking at algorithms thats when i realized something new was going on and we began gathering data. So we call it the shark tank but what it is is its truly being. Treated with even the social networks that spread this information that have been used in attacks so we have more than 350000000 comments or 15000000 accounts. So its a big data set is probably the largest outside of facebook. The key thing here is to go back to the way the new tactic campaign ran the social media campaigns is so organize that they have a content creator for the elite then theres a content creator a blogger for the middle class and then the blogger for the mass base is now the head of the social media for the president ial palace by looking at that database you can pull out keywords you can pull out attacks and you can get to exactly how the attempt began and the velocity spread. To the shark tank we connected it to a slack channel if something is friending beyond a certain frequency it will send us all an alert once we fact check it we can send it to facebook and facebook of the president. In august of 2016 i gave facebook the data that we had and i said you really have to look at this because you know you have u. S. Elections coming up and this is so alarming that trump could win. And we all laughed we laughed. And then when trump won in november they asked me for the dog. In the french elections that. Helped pull down 30000 feet of comics. This database this data is is the story of how the mockers. Became a dictatorship and thats certainly what we seem to have so we can still fight it and were using the data to back. Im going to do is a color is going to get this is very. Very you know when you have these legal processes are being used against us that does have impact on the business because the minute an advertiser now signs a contract with rappler theres a risk involved for them so what we did is very quickly when we saw the trend and that that advertisers were scared we then came up with a whole slew of different products that we could offer so this country the Propaganda Machine led us to our new Business Model if you think about it. Its just a civic think were selling your local it is what we did Building Community for what we did for rappler is what we were offering to do for them but it is data driven social media narrative strategy and distribution strategy. What can settle that it could be and how you know certain Political Parties use social media understand the messaging. Thats a lot of this is im just wondering if theres. So i can talk and then carlo can also talk so for me because the cynical view is this is psychological manipulation you see people that are very right like marketing in general. Which is actually. There you go remember what was wrong. It was a psychological analysis it was the way they got their data breach the breach and. The sense is its ok to. Influence your psychological outlook but its not ok to stupid that really would you know companies dont know how to use social well except to put ads on facebook and theyre realizing that thats not a good. Thing is if you think mom and dad are we should its sad the 1st. Time on i was going to send you the photo from florida you got to see talk to talk to mom and dad im going to show you the front of. The. Having dinner the kids are here and you know see here. Really briefly why guys love you love me much and. Their hard thank you for this meal these are the heads of protection around on the bus and those that we have. And those that we care for so that we. Can walk in here and buy. One its mine alone dont anyone to touch it you see the case. Yes yes the bills what have you actually to give im poor you all of this. Im not going to get emotional so i stop although you guys do you guys worry about teacher maria. Dont worry about being right i worry about you. Also i think you just tell me what you think i need to know which is probably ok too. But the end goal of all of this is to actually take up space so the less space it takes up the better right as for me i fix it with a lot of prayer so what do you have to do after hearing what i really have to worry maybe i could finish but. When the case came and they were threatening to shut us down we were like were not going to dock thats like an old way. Enterprise yeah. Im connecting connecting really. I but maybe we are looking for new products that rappler can build. Obviously were working on it but wed like to work with you because every person in this room has not just displayed great talent at what they do but is also committed in a different way so thats our end goal this is what really gets me so i dont have kids really i realized my my longest relationship was with journalism guys and you will get i will send an email of all of the awards that you guys because theyve been incredible its been good to hear it even if its been a bad default. Start to the year ok. But i think the energy of the folks are one of the reasons we survived and we continue battling through the bush nothing it feels like when we act like a team nothing will get in our day and we can barrel through it people are throwing their lives into it right people its not just me its our its raptors look at their face its. Like see they should be emotional. They believe. So i but. You know but you know with. Any stop. Actually the easy part is the rational is really taking to the. You gotta look for. In collaboration its hope in solidarity. I came to paris to join this commission that its an inaugural meeting of about 20 people who are working on this information in different parts of the world president kron will meet with us and its something that is its really an initiative by the reporters are s. F. Porter sense for 2 years. I think the Technology Platforms the social media platforms are forced to confront what theyve created that what theyve done now is allowed. Evil networks to take over and that has actually had an impact on democracies around the world. So. Its going to interest. Nice to see you get a question im going to have wife i think its ok i will i will set up as ill try to live stream for the event. If if if a true 17 thank you. Leads us from just a little of them because you feel some vision on the in the streets of new. But it sure you were trying. To do. You know whats horrible with that it will be contra life you know with the little fuss you see dr marx needed to see if you just got one on this one just the other you need to. Go through. The system is to multiply the atmosphere you might always make some good to come up at our whole hour how many choices. The business use is infamous too little on the palm of the company you dont miss it. Thats perfect. So im honored to be the one who has to do the show no better than me in this condition she received the only things arise she did that well and she is one of the chairs of this commission on with our lives. Because the thought of this is the. Wrong table about situations the world of the pleasure. To. Join that is the c. E. O. Of the rock you know almost 97 percent of filipinos who are on the internet or on facebook for rappler social media is both a positive and a negative it is both good and evil depending on how its used but free speech is being used to stifle free speech hate is used to pound you into silence and for all of our countries how do you give free speech with out the excesses of people who want to manipulate this new technology if they live in the philippines is offering a capsule into the future what we are seeing is believing that. This is an oncoming reception or in a bad mood the Nobel Prize Winner and a moscow want to manage the dual role. Oh british subject is painful i love lots of that stuff its good stuff what do you think the french understand that a facebook poll taken down the 30000 take up how its thats not on may not be present. Or they dont really think that thats that the fighting spectacles its not ordinary to me its an interesting question whether it is or is shows showing that Center Stage Show in. The school on actual behavior yet phones out feel very very poorly studied and often you know how to use them to come to our countries. How would you describe journalism in turkey today. Is risky and dangerous profession and. Imagine a country you come from a chance to reach the truth despite grooving on this. With some meat on my solutions to this movie since this might be. Linked to the fact that you so its a. Given our president ron i want to understand how one head of state whos holding the line what the way he looks at it and what he thinks is even possible to ask him what can be done what are other leaders in democracies talking. One thing we. Will be leaving money a lot in manila yeah i had been among them though many many years ago and please if you ever come and love to show you to be how long have you been in exile since 2000. And your family has been the aggressor and thats. Why. I hope i dont have to go into exile. So you did i know that even you. I will say that those. That. You. Look at just a click and you think the meeting took place on sufficiently similar people that my normal expectation for be doing with a head of state is. There will be a print that essentially will be a performance for so political but it was a remarkable soon is that you were actually i mean obviously she was somebody who had to be. Good to influence her political relations so well see what actually comes of it. It was an off the record discussion with him and that promise one of the leaders that was targeted by these bad actors on social media is he leader with liberal values that he stand for things that the geo political activists did not want who was behind those 30000 fake accounts thats interesting to me he probably knows he certainly did say anything about. 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 absolutely no accountability for the platforms to spread lies exponentially and should not allow it to spread thats what im looking for thats a good looking. Bit of a strange day to start the centrifuge we just heard today to city of aleppo has fallen. Or should we say liberated. And the one north for astonishing stories told in their own wireds how did you know who to trust him not to trust. A stranger came to town witness on aljazeera. 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