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When she met him in 2017, journalist Maria Ressa told Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg that 97% of Filipinos on the internet were on Facebook.
That year (and at least up until 2021, the year she won the Nobel peace prize) the 113-million people in the Philippines were the global citizens who spent the most time on the internet and social media...
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