i was looking at how social network analysis spread the ideology of terrorism and we created rapplerbecause if you can convince people to blow themselves up with this radical ideology why couldn't you have some things that are for good right 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 influences t

rappler was a dream. in twenty eleven a group of friends and i kind of thought that this this new technology that is that we can't completely try out inside traditional networks because everything that made traditional media successful will go against what we wanted to do . statement glenda. yeah we started with twelve people four five of us were about forty at that point. anand then we hire the smartest twenty somethings with. is this a good luck with the with the mug. howw do i fixix with i think it's largely a fixable i mean i would try to fix it the forty is and why don't i start because you hear from the london school of economics. i will. introduce you. our r swer is done a l lot of thgrground brbreaking work on looking at russian this information. by. peterr pomerantz of welcome t to manila let me just figure o out were being manipipulated they're disinformation a and misinformation campaigns by both state actors and private interests what we do about it there's a much deeper question is that socia

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