that's why we created rappler. but then when you started seeing the negative parts, it's hard to pull yourself out. how to be a whistleblower. what gave you the courage to do that? yeah, i think it was for me, you know, growing up kind of as an outsider, i was partly in a wheelchair when i was growing up because of a invisible disability. and then i live on top of that sort of being queer. i came out as a with the war, but i've been coming out for my entire life and you know, for me it's that sense of otherness that and comfortable with being uncomfortable. yeah. that i think gave me a little bit of a notch to help me become, become a whistleblower. but with setting up rappler and, you know, being on the outside, i think you're going out there every single day. pissing off a lot of people trying to do you find that you know, your life's journey sort of influence and thought, oh gosh. so i was born in the philippines and then moved to the united states when martial law was declared in 1972. but when i was with ameri