Video, Past Event
Maria Ressa | How to Stand Up to a Dictator
At this SFU Vancouver Speaker Series event, Maria Ressa discussed the threat disinformation campaigns pose to our increasingly polarized democracies in a conversation with Carol Off, former host of 'As it Happens' on CBC Radio One.
Renowned investigative journalist Maria Ressa received the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for her fearless defense of press freedom and democracy in the Philippines as CEO and co-founder of Rappler, an online news site. For her critical reporting of former President Rodrigo Duterte’s government and policies, she faces multiple lawsuits and potentially over 100 years in prison yet remains resolved in her fight to speak truth to power.
Now, in her forthcoming book How to Stand up to a Dictator, Maria Ressa maps out a global network of disinformation from Duterte’s drug wars, to America’s Capitol Hill, to Britain’s Brexit, to Russian cyberwarfare to Silicon Valley and beyond.
Co-Presented by
SFU Vancouver, SFU Public Square, SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement, the Digital Democracies Institute, Ouano Foundation, the University of British Columbia, and the Global Reporting Centre.
