How to Stand up to a Dictator

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By Maria Ressa ’86

Published Nov. 18, 2022

Nobel Prize winning journalist Maria Ressa knows all too well the struggle to publish the truth when up against a government working to do otherwise. As a result of her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by the Philippines government, Ressa has multiple arrest warrants out against her and is currently facing the possibility of jail. She uses this book to map out networks of disinformation from Russian and Chinese cyberwarfare to Britain’s Brexit. How to Stand up to a Dictator (Penguin Random House) is Ressa’s urgent cry to wake up the world before it’s too late.

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