How To Stand Up To A Dictator

What will you sacrifice for the truth?

Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her courages work tracking her own government's disinformation networks, which spread lies laced with hate to its own citizens, has landed her in trouble with the most powerful man in the country: the President.

Now, hounded by the state, she has multiple arrest warrants against her name, and faces over a hundred years behind bars - all 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 and knows no borders. Tracking Maria's own life and reportage, it maps a network of disinformation that spans the globe - from Duterte's drug wars to America's Capitol Hill, from Britain's Brexit, to Russia's invasion of Ukraine; from Chinese cyber-warfare to Facebook and Silicon Valley - affecting what we click on, how we think, and how we vote. our own clicks and our own vote.

Reflecting on a lifetime spent in pursuit of the truth, this is the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize laureate's urgent cry for all of us to wake up, to hold the line, and to fight for our collective future- before it is too late.