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How to Stand Up to a Dictator

by Maria Ressa

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Book of the Day, NPR · December 5, 2022

'How to Stand Up to a Dictator' dissects how disinformation can kill democracies

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Start the Week, BBC Radio 4 · November 21, 2022

Taking a stand

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Nobel Prize-winning journalist Maria Ressa examines how disinformation and social media's amplification of inflammatory falsehoods threaten democracy, drawing on her experience in the Philippines as a testing ground for attacks on democratic institutions.

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