president rodrigo due trt s deadly war on drugs. she currently faces about 100 years in prison for cyber, libel and other legal charges. the nobel committee bestowed the peace prize on ressa for her efforts to safeguard freedom of expression. she has a new book out titled how to stand up to a dictator, the fight for our future. maria, welcome. always a pleasure to have you on. i want to get to something right at the core of your book. you talk about how democracy can die a death of a thousand cuts. and the cuculiar way it dies is that you have elected leaders who use laws to prosecute and oppress journalists. describe how that happened to you in your case as an example. it s a combination of many things, but i go back to what caused these cascading failures, what caused the weaponization of the law.
bestowed the peace prize on ressa for her efforts to safeguard freedom of expression. she has a new book out titled how to stand up to a dictator, the fight for our future. maria, welcome. always a pleasure to have you on. i want to get to something right at the core of your book. you talk about how democracy can die a death of a thousand cuts. and the peculiar way it dies is that you have elected leaders who use laws to prosecute and oppress journalists. describe how that happened to you in your case as an example. it s a combination of many things, but i go back to what caused these cascading failures, what caused the weaponization of the law. it really is this astroturfing, bottom up. when lies spread faster and further than facts on social media, so the information operations seeding a lie amid a narrative bottom up. in my case it was journalist equals criminal.