In 2021, Filipino-American journalist Maria Ressa received the Nobel Peace Prize for her struggle and opposition to the Rodrigo Duterte regime in the Philippines. And recently at the conference of the Hay literary festival in Powys he said that Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk They are the greatest dictators of our time.
According to the journalist, both CEOs “demonstrated that everyone, regardless of culture, language or geography, has much more in common than differences, because we are all manipulated in the same way.”
Social media platforms have the power to “change the way we feel,” he said, which in turn “changes the way we see the world and changes the way we act.”
Maria Ressa argued that the way tech companies “fuel polarization, fuel fear, anger and hatred” is changing us “on a personal and social level.”
He suggested two ways to loosen the tech companies’ control over us. First, he said, the United States should get rid of Section 230 of the Communications Integrity Act of 1996, “which gives these companies impunity.” The section protects Internet companies from lawsuits over content posted by their users.
“And second: if you have children, don’t let them enter [en las redes sociales] until they’re older,” he said, because it’s “slightly addictive.”
A final warning from the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winner: “get out into the real world” and organize with your families and friends, “because information operations are targeting you. And when you become a broadcast division, you become part of the information testing team of these companies.
Source: Digital Trends
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