Facebook is ‘biased against facts’, says Nobel prize winner

She said its algorithms "prioritise the spread of lies laced with anger and hate over facts". 

Ressa, who co-founded the news website Rappler, won the Nobel prize on Friday for her work to "safeguard freedom of expression", along with Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov. Ressa said Facebook had become the world's largest distributor of news, "yet it is biased against facts, it is biased against journalism … 

If you have no facts, you can't have truths, you can't have trust. If you don't have any of these, you don't have a democracy."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/09/facebook-biased-against-facts-nobel-peace-prize-winner-philippines-maria-ressa-misinformation

Maria Ressa’s conviction spells trouble for democracy in the Philippines - The Washington Post

Maria Ressa is a journalistic force in the Philippines and that’s why the country’s prevailing powers-that-be are trying to shut her up. Last week, a Manila court found Ressa and a colleague of hers at Rappler — the enterprising, investigative operation to which she is executive editor and CEO — guilty of cyber-libel related to a 2012 story that cited an intelligence report linking a prominent businessman to possible drug trafficking. Ressa did not write or edit the piece and the charges set against her were based on a law that was not yet on the country’s books at the time of the article’s publication.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/06/23/maria-ressa-philippines-democracy-duterte/