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SUMMARY OF HOW TO STAND UP TO A DICTATOR: The Fight for Our Future
THIS IS NOT A BOOK BY MARIA RESSA OR IS IT AFFILIATED WITH HER. IT IS AN INDEPENDENT PUBLICATION THAT SUMMARIZES RESSA’S BOOK IN DETAIL
You are reading a summary of the book How To stand up to a DictatorThe summary's information is not prepared to take the place of the original book. It serves as a summary to deepen the reader's comprehension.Once again, the goal of this Summary guide is to persuade readers to purchase the original work in order to deepen their grasp.
ABOUT THE ORIGINAL
How to Stand Up to a Dictator is also the story of how the creep towards authoritarianism, in the Phillipines and around the world, has been aided and abetted by the social media companies. Ressa exposes how they have allowed their platforms to spread a virus of lies that infect each of us, pitting us against one another, igniting, even creating, our fears, anger, and hate, and how this has accelerated the rise of authoritarians and dictators around the world. She maps a network of disinformation—a heinous web of cause and effect—that has netted the from Duterte’s drug wars to America's Capitol Hill; Britain’s Brexit to Russian and Chinese cyber-warfare; Facebook and Silicon Valley to our own clicks and votes.Democracy is fragile. How to Stand Up to a Dictator is an urgent cry for Western readers to recognize and understand the dangers to our freedoms before it is too late. It is a book for anyone who might take democracy for granted, written by someone who never would. And in telling her dramatic and turbulent and courageous story, Ressa forces readers to ask themselves the same question she and her colleagues ask every What are you willing to sacrifice for the truth?
You are reading a summary of the book How To stand up to a DictatorThe summary's information is not prepared to take the place of the original book. It serves as a summary to deepen the reader's comprehension.Once again, the goal of this Summary guide is to persuade readers to purchase the original work in order to deepen their grasp.
ABOUT THE ORIGINAL
How to Stand Up to a Dictator is also the story of how the creep towards authoritarianism, in the Phillipines and around the world, has been aided and abetted by the social media companies. Ressa exposes how they have allowed their platforms to spread a virus of lies that infect each of us, pitting us against one another, igniting, even creating, our fears, anger, and hate, and how this has accelerated the rise of authoritarians and dictators around the world. She maps a network of disinformation—a heinous web of cause and effect—that has netted the from Duterte’s drug wars to America's Capitol Hill; Britain’s Brexit to Russian and Chinese cyber-warfare; Facebook and Silicon Valley to our own clicks and votes.Democracy is fragile. How to Stand Up to a Dictator is an urgent cry for Western readers to recognize and understand the dangers to our freedoms before it is too late. It is a book for anyone who might take democracy for granted, written by someone who never would. And in telling her dramatic and turbulent and courageous story, Ressa forces readers to ask themselves the same question she and her colleagues ask every What are you willing to sacrifice for the truth?
52 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 28, 2022
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Richard Brooks
146 books17 followersFormer tax-inspector Richard Brooks reports for Private Eye on a range of subjects and has contributed to the Guardian, the BBC, and many other media outlets. With David Craig he was co-author of the bestselling Plundering the Public Sector. In 2008 he was awarded the Paul Foot Award for Investigative Journalism. He lives in Reading.
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