Binding: Paperback
Description: From the recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize comes an impassioned and inspiring memoir that chronicles her career fighting fascism filled with insights and advice for standing against authoritarian bullies and confronting disinformation and lies. It includes an introduction by Amal Clooney. Maria Ressa is one of the most renowned international journalists of our time. For decades she challenged corruption and malfeasance in her native country the Philippines on its rocky path from an authoritarian state to a democracy. As a reporter from CNN she transformed news coverage in her region which led her in 2012 to create a new and innovative online news organization Rappler. Harnessing the emerging power of social media Rappler crowdsourced breaking news found pivotal sources and tips harnessed collective action for climate change and helped increase voter knowledge and participation in elections. But by their fifth year of existence Rappler had gone from being lauded for its ideas to being targeted by the new Philippine government and made Ressa an enemy ofher countrysmost powerful man: President Duterte. Still she did not let up tracking government seeded disinformation networks which spread lies to its own citizens laced with anger and hate. Hounded by the stateand its allies using the legal system to silence her accused of numerous crimes and charged with cyberlibel for which she was found guilty Ressa faces years in prison and thousands in fines. There is another adversary Ressa is battling. How to Stand Up to a Dictatoris also the story of how the creep toward authoritarianism in the Phillipines and around the world has been aided and abetted by the social media companies. Ressa exposes how they have allowed their platforms to spread a virus of lies that infect each of us pitting us against one another igniting even creating our fears anger and hate and how this has accelerated the rise of authoritarians and dictators around the world. Shemaps a network of disinformationa heinous web of cause and effectthat has netted the globe: from Dutertes drug wars to America's Capitol Hill; Britains Brexit to Russian and Chinese cyber - warfare; Facebook and Silicon Valley to our own clicks and votes. Democracy is fragile. How to Stand Up to a Dictatoris anurgent cry for Western readers torecognize and understand the dangers to our freedomsbefore it is too late. It is a book for anyone who might take democracy for granted written by someone who never would. And in telling her dramatic and turbulent and courageous story Ressa forces readers to ask themselves the same question she and her colleagues ask every day: What are you willing to sacrifice for the truth?
Title: How To Stand Up To A Dictator The Fight For Our Future
Author(s): Ressa Maria
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780063257528
Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/28/2023