Congratulations to Maria Ressa and to Dmitry Muratov, joint winners of the Nobel Peace Prize this year.
Maria warned years ago of the "atom bomb which has exploded in our information ecosystem". It seems that she feels that the situation has got worse since then. Indeed, the most headline-grabbing response from Facebook, one of the social media in Ressa's line of fire, was to appoint a more plausible public apologist in the form of Nick Clegg.
Muratov was one of the former Komsomolskaya Pravda journalists who founded Novaya Gazeta under the aegis of Gorbachev, who still owns ten per cent of the stock, in 1993. Since then, six of his journalists critical of the Putin regime have been assassinated.
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