Social media bosses are 'the largest dictators', says Nobel peace prize winner

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"Tech bros" such as Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are "the largest dictators", Maria Ressa, who won the Nobel peace prize in 2021 for her defence of media freedom, has said. The American-Filipina journalist has spent a number of years fighting charges filed during then president of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte's administration, but said Duterte "is a far smaller dictator compared to Mark Zuckerberg, and now let me throw in Elon Musk". Speaking at the Hay literary festival in Powys, Ressa said Zuckerberg and Musk have "proven that we all, regardless of culture, language, or geography, have far more in…