What are the values that give meaning? What is the line that you will never cross, because on this side you’re good, and on this side you’re evil. Maria Ressa Read Quote
How well we survive this time of creative destruction, it really is, depends on each of us, on each of us fighting our individual battles of integrity, for integrity. Maria Ressa Read Quote
In 14 months, my government, the Philippine 2 government, has filed 11 cases. I posted bail eight times, I’ve been arrested twice in five weeks, detained once, and the only thing I’ve done, my only crime is to be a journalist, to speak truth to power. Maria Ressa Read Quote
Frankly, it’s a bit shocking to me the lengths government will go to to let little Rappler feel its power. Maria Ressa Read Quote
Technology enabled Rappler’s fast growth starting in 2012, but we were also among the first victims when social media was weaponized in 2016. Maria Ressa Read Quote
I always felt that I wasn’t as American as Americans and then I realised when I got back to the Philippines that I was not Filipino. Maria Ressa Read Quote
Enshrined in the Philippine constitution, which is similar to the United States, is the bill of rights: freedom of expression, freedom of the press. These are enshrined. And yet, freedom of the press has been curtailed. Maria Ressa Read Quote
Ninety-seven percent of Filipinos on the Internet are on Facebook. And according to Hootsuite or We Are Social, in January 2019, Filipinos spend the most time on the Internet, and they spend the most time on social media globally. Maria Ressa Read Quote
