64 Quotes by Maria Ressa

The social media platforms have taken over the distribution of news globally. They treat a lie the same way you would treat a fact.

I would give back every single award to be able to actually do our jobs as journalists without this kind of harassment.

A Princeton education sets you up for life: you have learned how to learn, and at a time when technology has changed everything, you will constantly have to learn.

Let me go back to a fundamental thing we all used to agree on: information is power. That's why we became journalists in the first place.

If the social media platforms don't take the gatekeeping seriously they will kill the public sphere. If we don't get this right in 2020 you can open a decade or longer of a descent into fascism. And it will be global because platforms are global.

Truth matters. Checks and balances matter.

The difference between Rappler and other newsgroups in the Philippines is that journalists control Rappler both editorially and commercially. We make decisions that are bad for business but protect the public sphere.

After living a decade in Jakarta, I chose. I chose Manila, the Philippines, for better or worse.

My heroes were always a combination of Captain Kirk and Mr Spock. You have to be ruled by logic, but if you're only ruled by logic and you don't touch your emotions, you will make the wrong instinctive call.