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How to stand up to a dictator / Maria Ressa.

By: Material type: TextTextDescription: 288 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780753559215 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 321.9 23
LOC classification:
  • JC495
Summary: 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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Non Fiction The Harden Library, King's Hospital General 321.9 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out 10/09/2024 30499100000321

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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