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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 Dutertes drug wars to Americas Capitol Hill to Britains Brexit to Russian and Chinese cyberwarfare to Facebook and Silicon Valley to our own clicks and our own votes

Told from the frontline of the digital war this is Maria Ressas 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 shes 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

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