The Fight Back: A Citizen's Guide to Standing Up to Dictators

Maria Ressa, cofounder of the Philippine news site Rappler, offers a playbook for resisting authoritarianism. She argues that the threat comes both from political leaders such as Rodrigo Duterte and from tech companies that control the information billions of people see. Ressa urges readers to practice information self-defense by checking sources and sharing verified reporting, and to build communities offline. The book lays out one hundred concrete actions, starting with deleting or limiting one social media app, and closes with ten strategic goals.

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