You have to wonder whether Trump could have got away with such an egregiously rigged election, without social media to drown out any questions about its validity.

Nobel Peace Prize winner, Filipino-American journalist, Maria Ressa says that one of the keys to Duterte’s previous success and Trump’s success is the use of social media to control the narrative. Ressa contends that the greatest threat we face today isn’t any individual leader or one government. It is the technology that’s amplifying authoritarian tactics worldwide, enabled by democratic governments that abdicated their responsibility to protect the public.

Tech platforms have become the weapons of mass destruction to democracy.