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How to Stand Up to a Dictator
How to Stand Up to a Dictator | Maria Ressa
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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; Nobel Peace Prize WINNER 2021 'A personal hero of mine ... she's 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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mcctrish
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I honestly think more people should read/listen to this. It‘s eye opening how social media is being used to manipulate what we see/hear and how that influences us. It sounds conspiracy theory like but MR has exhaustive research and examples of when and how the public is manipulated using ‘stories‘ and algorithms. I understand why 🇨🇦 gov‘t blocked news being on FB and IG but the stupid shit is still getting through so it‘s a half assed attempt

Sace I‘m stacking this. 7mo
mcctrish @Sace I have completely over simplified what this book entails in my post because it covers sooo much ground but everything that happened on the Philippines/Indonesia is happening here ( first world countries) now or about to : it‘s a cautionary tale 7mo
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Snow White bag #10 the roof gets a fresh thatch

RobES Amazing 🤩 7mo
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Snow White bag #9 6/7 dwarves and a roof for sleeping under. I‘m flipping between this book and Taylor‘s TTPS ( so far my favourites are Florida and thanK you aIMee - I love a good F bomb )

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Snow White bag #8 bed time for 5/7 dwarves, Snow White is reading Go the Fuck to Sleep by Adam Mansbach to them. This book is blowing my mind and illuminating some stuff I ignored irl. Facebook is the devil, as is Zuckerberg

Aimeesue At first glance I thought this was a hospital triage scene and that first guy had been impaled by a pickaxe 😂 7mo
mcctrish @Aimeesue absolutely don‘t know how impaling hasn‘t run rampant with this group so far 🤣 7mo
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Snow White bag #7 Bashful has arrived 4/7 dwarves are accounted for

mcctrish @wanderinglynn it‘s a highlight everyday 7mo
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Snow White bag #6 and a new audio book with a lot to process

TheBookHippie Love. 7mo
mcctrish @TheBookHippie Grumpy gets his own place setting 😆 7mo
hannah-leeloo My sister @CymbaX13 just finished this 😍 7mo
mcctrish @hannah-leeloo @CymbaX13 ❤️❤️ 7mo
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#VolumesAndVocals Day 4: My husband and I definitely got #ShiversEdSheeran when we witnessed just outside our hotel in Sibiu Romania, this World Press Photo exhibition, featuring Duterte‘s war on drugs and truth. Such fearless and unflappable claim of truth being a public good. Unless of course it brings such painful discomfort and makes one complicit in voting for a mass murderer. There will always be a reckoning.

Eggs ❤️😢💚 1y
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#MarchMagic Day 2: Maria Ressa is definitely older than me and fits the prompt #MCOlderThanYou. 💕

Eggs Great pic 💗📚 2y
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#JanuaryJazz Day 31: Here is my #FebruaryTBR which I have just put together in time for our #CEDUReadingChallenge2023

Eggs Great stack!! 2y
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