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How to Stand Up to a Dictator
- Author
- Maria Ressa
- Narrator
- Maria Ressa
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 17 November 2022
- Run Time
- 10 hours 13 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Political structures / systems: democracy, Impact of science and technology on society, Human rights, civil rights, Information technology industries
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
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What to expect
Brought to you by Penguin.
WINNER of the Nobel Peace Prize 2021 and the UNESCO Press Freedom Award 2021
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 10 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: from Duterte's drug wars, to America's Capitol Hill, to Britain's Brexit, to Russian and Chinese cyber-warfare, to Facebook and Silicon Valley, to our own clicks and our own votes.
Told from the frontline of the digital war, this is Maria Ressa's urgent cry for us to wake up and hold the line, before it is too late.
Praise for Maria Ressa:
'A personal hero of mine ... she's an important warning for the rest of us' Hillary Clinton
'Maria Ressa is 5ft 2in, but she stands taller than most in her pursuit of the truth' Amal Clooney
'Maria is a key voice ... she is so incredible in so many ways' Carole Cadwalladr
© Maria Ressa 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
Critics Review
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Absolutely sublime and transformational. [Maria Ressa] lays out the moral paradigm for our time and the consequences of ignoring it and the thrill and reward of embracing it
Shoshana Zuboff, author of the international bestselling Surveillance Capitalism
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A personal hero of mine ... she's an important warning for the rest of us
Hillary Clinton
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I don't think I've read a more important book this year.
Andrew Marr, LBC
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Maria is a key voice... she is so incredible in so many ways. The world needs to listen to what she has to say
Carole Cadwalladr
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Maria Ressa is five feet two inches, but she stands taller than most in her pursuit of the truth
Amal Clooney
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So how do you stand up to a dictator? One thing is for sure: you cannot do it alone. Ressa needs support from all of us, and she needs it now
Guardian
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Tales of a moral giant... All of these attempts to raise the alarm came to nothing, so it is hardly surprising that Ressa's inspiring book has an impassioned, frustrated and, at times, angry tone. She saw the future and knew how it didn't work for democracy. And nobody except the Nobel committee seemed to be paying attention. For which mercy, much thanks
Observer
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Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist Maria Ressa's How to Stand Up to a Dictator makes an unmissable Book of the Week. It is a memoir of a life devoted to truth-telling, an account of her battle to expose the reality behind the Philippines' former president Rodrigo Duterte's so-called war on drugs, and a brilliant dissection of the "virus of lies" generated on social media platforms.
Telegraph
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An inspiration
Zoe Kleinman
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How to Stand Up to a Dictator is confronting, even terrifying - but feels vital... This book lays bare how big tech companies are allowing democracy to be eroded through the dissemination of disinformation, and the devastating effects it can have on a nation...Ressa spends her days on bail awaiting her next court hearing. The rest of us should be watching with bated breath. In the meantime, the least we can do is read this book, learn from it and pass it on to everyone we know.
Anna Bonet, inews.co.uk
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Details
- Author
- Maria Ressa
- Narrator
- Maria Ressa
- Duration
- 10 hours 13 minutes
- Release Date
- 17 November 2022
- ISBN
- 9780753559482
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing
- Genre
- Political structures / systems: democracy, Impact of science and technology on society, Human rights, civil rights, Information technology industries
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER of the Nobel Peace Prize 2021 and the UNESCO Press Freedom Award 2021What 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 10 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: from Duterte's drug wars, to America's Capitol Hill, to Britain's Brexit, to Russian and Chinese cyber-warfare, to Facebook and Silicon Valley, to our own clicks and our own votes.Told from the frontline of the digital war, this is Maria Ressa's urgent cry for us to wake up and hold the line, before it is too late.Praise for Maria Ressa:'A personal hero of mine ... she's an important warning for the rest of us' Hillary Clinton'Maria Ressa is 5ft 2in, but she stands taller than most in her pursuit of the truth' Amal Clooney'Maria is a key voice ... she is so incredible in so many ways' Carole Cadwalladr© Maria Ressa 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022
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