How to stand up to a dictator : the fight for our future / Maria Ressa ; foreword by Amal Clooney.
Publisher: London : WH Allen, 2022Description: ix, 301 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780753559192Subject(s): Ressa, Maria | Disinformation
| Democracy | Journalism -- Political aspects | Communication in politics | Power (Social sciences) | Political corruption -- Philippines | Duterte, Rodrigo Roa, 1945-DDC classification: 070.4092 LOC classification: PN4874.R4 | A3 2022Summary: What will you sacrifice for the truth? Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own government, spreading lies to its own citizens laced with anger and hate, has landed her in trouble with the most powerful man in the country: President Duterte. Now, hounded by the state, she has multiple arrest warrants against her name, and a potential 100+ years behind bars to prepare for - while she stands trial for speaking the truth. 'How to Stand Up to a Dictator' is the story of how democracy dies by a thousand cuts, and how an invisible atom bomb has exploded online that is killing our freedoms. It maps a network of disinformation - a heinous web of cause and effect - that has netted the globe.
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What will you sacrifice for the truth? Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own government, spreading lies to its own citizens laced with anger and hate, has landed her in trouble with the most powerful man in the country: President Duterte. Now, hounded by the state, she has multiple arrest warrants against her name, and a potential 100+ years behind bars to prepare for - while she stands trial for speaking the truth. 'How to Stand Up to a Dictator' is the story of how democracy dies by a thousand cuts, and how an invisible atom bomb has exploded online that is killing our freedoms. It maps a network of disinformation - a heinous web of cause and effect - that has netted the globe.