Maria Ressa offers a guide to defending democracy in 'The Fight Back'
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[0:06] PEACE PRIZE LAUREATE MARIA RESSA
[0:07] CHRONICLED HER FIGHT AGAINST THE
[0:08] DUTERTE REGIME IN THE
[0:09] PHILIPPINES IN HER 2022 BOOK,
[0:12] "HOW TO STAND UP TO A DICTATOR."
[0:14] SHE DETAILED YEARS OF ATTACKS ON
[0:14] HER REPORTING, AND HER
[0:15] NEWSROOM'S STRUGGLE TO DEFEND
[0:17] PRESS FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY.
[0:21] NOW, IN A NEW BOOK, RESSA WARNS
[0:22] OF DIFFERENT THREATS TO THOSE
[0:23] SAME FREEDOMS.
[0:24] AMNA NAWAZ SPOKE WITH HER
[0:24] EARLIER TODAY.
[0:28] AMNA: ACCORDING TO MARIA RESSA,
[0:32] THERE'S A DUAL THREAT BY
[0:34] AUTOCRATIC LEADERS AND BIG TECH
[0:34] COMPANIES, WEAPONIZING
[0:35] INFORMATION AND ALGORITHMS TO
[0:35] CREATE NEW CRISES FOR DEMOCRACY
[0:36] AND HUMANITY.
[0:40] THAT'S IN HER NEW BOOK, "THE
[0:41] FIGHT BACK: A CITIZEN'S GUIDE TO
[0:44] STANDING UP TO DICTATORS."
[0:47] MARIA RESSA JOINS ME NOW.
[0:55] IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU.
[0:55] YOU TALK IN THE BOOK ABOUT WHAT
[0:56] YOU CALL AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE
[0:56] BETWEEN STATE POWER AND PLATFORM
[0:58] POWER.
[1:00] WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT?
[1:03] A DECADE OF HARMS FROM
[1:03] ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, RIGHT?
[1:05] WE'RE ONLY TALKING ABOUT THE
[1:06] TAIL END OF IT, BUT WE'VE TALKED
[1:07] A LOT ABOUT MY TWO DICTATORS IN
[1:09] THE PHILIPPINES.
[1:10] IT WAS RODRIGO DUTERTE, WHO WON
[1:11] AS PRESIDENT IN 2016 WITH THE
[1:12] HELP OF FACEBOOK, AND MY SECOND
[1:13] DICTATOR, WHO I WOULD ARGUE IS
[1:16] MORE