From the recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, an impassioned
and inspiring memoir of a career spent holding power to account,
with 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 of her country's most 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 state and
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
Dictator is also the story of how the creep towards
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. She maps
a network of disinformation--a heinous web of cause and
effect--that has netted the globe: from Duterte's drug wars to
America's Capitol Hill; Britain's 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 Dictator is an
urgent cry for Western readers to recognize and understand the
dangers to our freedoms before 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?
General
Imprint: |
Collins
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2023 |
Authors: |
Maria Ressa
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Dimensions: |
203 x 135mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
320 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-06-325752-8 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
0-06-325752-1 |
Barcode: |
9780063257528 |
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