Inter Press ServiceUNGA80: Lies Spread Faster Than Facts https://www.ipsnews.net/2025/09/unga80-lies-spread-faster-than-facts/ News and Views from the Global South Thu, 07 May 2026 11:14:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 UNGA80: Lies Spread Faster Than Facts https://www.ipsnews.net/2025/09/unga80-lies-spread-faster-than-facts/ https://www.ipsnews.net/2025/09/unga80-lies-spread-faster-than-facts/#respond Tue, 30 Sep 2025 18:24:03 +0000 Ben Malor https://www.ipsnews.net/?p=192444

By Ben Malor
NEW YORK, Sep 30 2025 (IPS)

DANGER – WARNING – ALARM: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Maria Ressa is warning that lies are being weaponized deliberately to manipulate people around the world. Big, profit-oriented, and technology-enabled companies are now disregarding or trampling over the sanctity and veracity of facts and information to speed up disinformation, (using AI) in ways that quickly erase truth and leave people manipulated.

Even democratic elections are getting manipulated to the extent that some 72 per cent of the world is now living under illiberal or authoritarian regimes that have been “democratically” elected. Journalism, fact-checking, and public trust are under attack from this deliberate subversion of information integrity.

Enjoy this interview I conducted with Ms Ressa, (produced, directed and edited by my UN News and Media colleagues, Paulina Kubiak and Alban Mendes De Leon).

Ben Malor is the Chief Editor, UN Dailies, at UN News.

 


  
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