How to stand up to a dictator - Maria Ressa (First edition)

From the Philippines to Trump, from Brexit to Ukraine, democracy is under attack. How to Stand Up to a Dictator is the story of how democracy dies by a thousand cuts. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa has spent her life powerfully resisting these forces, speaking truth to power despite the threat of spending the rest of her life behind bars. Told from the frontline of the digital war, this is Maria Ressa’s urgent cry for all of us to wake up and hold the line, before it is too late.

MARIA RESSA is CEO, co-founder and president of Rappler, the Philippines’ top digitally news site. She was the recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, the first Filipino in history to do so. Maria’s work tracking her own government’s disinformation networks was the subject of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival documentary, A Thousand Cuts. She won the UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize 2021, was TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year in 2018, and was named by TIME as one of the most inspiring and influential women of the century.