Nobel Peace Prize winner and Filipino journalist Maria Ressa said Thursday that democracies and press freedom in Southeast Asian nations are on a "rollback," as she highlighted the crucial work journalists must do to hold the line.Ressa, 58, likened online disinformation and fact-twisting to a "virus of lies unleashed in our information ecosystem," pushing back decades' worth of democratic gains."I think that the Nobel Committee chose journalists for this moment in time is a signal that something is happening in our information ecosystem," Ressa told Kyodo News in an interview after winning…READ FULL ARTICLE
