Tuesday 22 November 2022
07:45
Maria Ressa
How to Stand up to a Dictator: The Fight for our Future
Having spent decades speaking truth to power, Maria urges us to wake up to the ever-growing 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.
Having spent decades speaking truth to power, Maria urges us to wake up to the ever-growing 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.
Maria Ressa
2021 Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Maria is a Filipino-American journalist whose work investigating online disinformation networks and Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s regime has landed her with 10 arrest warrants in less than two years. She was TIME Person of the Year in 2018 and is one of TIME’s 100 Women of the Century, with accolades from Hillary Clinton among others. Ressa is c.e.o. of news website Rappler, a Nobel Peace Prize Winner in 2021 and winner of the UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize 2021.
'A personal hero of mine ... she's an important warning for the rest of us'
Hilary Clinton
Maria Ressa
2021 Nobel Peace Prize Winner
Maria is a Filipino-American journalist whose work investigating online disinformation networks and Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s regime has landed her with 10 arrest warrants in less than two years. She was TIME Person of the Year in 2018 and is one of TIME’s 100 Women of the Century, with accolades from Hillary Clinton among others. Ressa is c.e.o. of news website Rappler, a Nobel Peace Prize Winner in 2021 and winner of the UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize 2021.
