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Maria Ressa: The woman at the front lines of fighting fake news (4x10)

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When multi-award winning journalist and Time’s Person of the Year (2018) Maria Ressa launched Rappler – an independent news site based in the Philippines - social media was key to the new company’s survival. However, according to Ressa, just a few years after the company’s launch, the platforms that had become their lifeblood were used to attack them.