00:00Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the NERV head of global strategy Maria Ressa says U.S. President
00:05Donald Trump's narrative warfare during his second term is far more insidious than what
00:09she experienced during former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's term.
00:13In an interview with Amanpour and company, Ressa talked about the NERV's latest report
00:17that investigated the first 100 days of Donald Trump's second term.
00:21The NERV report argues the Trump administration's actions, particularly the record-high 143
00:27executive orders in the first 100 days were not meant for open debate in a common civic forum.
00:32They were instead content triggers in the virtual world to erode democratic safeguards
00:36and intensify divisions until shared reality collapses. She says this is the same thing
00:41that happened in the Philippines, Duterte took six months, but Trump did it in 100 days.
00:47Ressa describes this moment as a tipping point, arguing that once a metanarrative is seeded
00:52in a closed system and amplified opportunistically, it can overwhelm everything else.
00:57This isn't an accident. There's a deliberate political strategy that leverages direct,
01:03unmediated communication to bypass traditional checks and balances.
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