Mar. 4, 2025
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Clay Waters
Monday’s PBS News Hour featured former CNN reporter Maria Ressa, who was awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for her “efforts to safeguard freedom of expression,” but her tough experiences as a journalist in the Phillipines taught her the wrong lessons -- that freedom of speech on social media is responsible for the rise in authoritarianism around the world, using the left-wing excuse of disinformation to call for the silencing of disagreeable voices online.
Her presence was part of the News Hour’s “On Democracy” series, launched after Trump’s victory, which so far has merely acted as an excuse to cue up various liberals to warn that Donald Trump is a dictator.
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