Under the authoritarian rule of President Rodriguez Duterte in The Philippines, Maria Ressa was targeted online, and had 11 arrest warrants out for her in just over a year.

Since then, Duterte has been arrested on an International Criminal Court warrant and Maria Ressa has won a Nobel Peace Prize. 

As democracies increasingly elect strongman leaders and tech companies circulate misinformation with impunity, Ressa warns against sleepwalking into authoritarianism.