Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780753559208
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2022
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK


Description:
Inspirational 2021 Nobel Peace Prize WINNER Maria Ressa's personal frontline manifesto in the war against authoritarianism's sinister uses of big tech



*BBC RADIO 4 START OF THE WEEK and GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR*



WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 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 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- 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-

Winner of the UNESCO Press Freedom Award 2021




'A personal hero of mine ... she's an important warning for the rest of us'

Hillary Clinton