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'How to Stand Up to a Dictator' dissects how disinformation can kill democracies

'How to Stand Up to a Dictator' dissects how disinformation can kill democracies

NPR's Book of the Day · NPR

December 5, 20229m 0s

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Journalist and Nobel Prize winner Maria Ressa thinks the world is facing a sort of World War III – especially as it relates to information. Her new book, How to Stand Up to a Dictator, details the relationship between trust, truth and democracy, and how social media's pull to inflammatory falsehoods can threaten that delicate balance. In this episode, she tells NPR's Scott Simon how the Philippines have become "a testing ground for attacks against America," and how investigative reporting on the matter is worth the risks it poses.

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