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Maria Ressa’s work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own government, has landed her in trouble with the most powerful man in the Philippines: President Duterte.

Hounded by the state, Maria has multiple arrest warrants against her name, and potentially more than 100 years behind bars to prepare for while she stands trial for speaking the truth.

Maria’s story is told from the frontline of the digital war. Her book –How to Stand Up to a Dictator– is the story of how democracy dies by a thousand cuts. It maps a 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 cyberwarfare, to Facebook and Silicon Valley, to our own clicks and our own votes.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:00 Welcome
02:25 Think slow, not fast: the echo chambers of algorithms
07:26 Facebook frenemies & selling data clones
10:10 The story of Rappler: holding truth to power in the Philippines
24:10 Restricting press access:
27:34 Trouble with the law:
29:54 The attention economy is a problem everywhere
36:50 The data is clear, democracy is being rolled back to 1989 levels
40:35 The spinach version of TikTok vs the exported, opium version of TikTok
47:42 There's always hope: a persontoperson defence of democracy
51:44 The community is critical: cynicism is a tool of dictatorship as it leads to inaction
54:37 How can advertisers be more moral?
1:00:00 I don't have all the answers, but keep trying.