Should this conference have been called

[Shishirgano9]

The use of Facebook, Twitter and also Google is detrimental 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 peru mobile database 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.

" 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 ."

Keep fighting, stay standing … Keep fighting to deliver quality information. For freedom of the press. And this is where the mission of journalism must, according to Maria Ressa, remain intact. to inform and do it well, without fear…

Democracy hacked

Martin Moore is director of the Centre for Media, Communication and Power Studies at King's College University London. In another lecture, he deciphers the mechanisms of a "hacked" democracy .