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Nov 4, 2026
Willeke van RijnGUEST
And that really grew in that community.
Willeke van RijnGUEST
There is something interesting that Maria Ressa, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, said around courage.
Willeke van RijnGUEST
And she mentions courage is collective and courage spreads.
Willeke van RijnGUEST
And how beautiful is that? I think we need each other right now to be brave and to be courageous.
MegHOST
It reminded me of one of my favorite journalists.
MegHOST
Her name is Maria Ressa.
MegHOST
She's a Filipino journalist.
MegHOST
And she wrote the book, How to Stand Up to a Dictator.
Piya ChattopadhyayHOST
Hi, I'm Pia Chattopadhyay.
Piya ChattopadhyayHOST
Democracy may be under threat around the world, but Maria Ressa says you have the power to help save it.
Piya ChattopadhyayHOST
Later on, the Nobel Peace Prize winner shares her tips on how to do just that.
Piya ChattopadhyayHOST
But let's start here.
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Piya ChattopadhyayHOST
In other countries, authoritarian leaders are tightening their grip on power.
Piya ChattopadhyayHOST
And the rise of AI is raising new concerns about misinformation, manipulation, and who controls what we see.
Piya ChattopadhyayHOST
For Nobel Peace Prize winning journalist Maria Ressa, these are not separate crises, but they are deeply intertwined.
Piya ChattopadhyayHOST
After years of fighting government intimidation and attacks on press freedom in the Philippines, Maria is now turning her attention to how people around the world can push back.
Shilpa JindiaGUEST
You know, like I said, I think this is all because the anti-ICE protests were the most visible and continuous protests to the administration, and they were impeding the mass deportation agenda.
Shilpa JindiaGUEST
So as terrifying as these types of charges or surveillance and investigations are, it's so important to, as Maria Ressa says, hold the line.
Shilpa JindiaGUEST
Because every day that you don't fight for your rights, you then start to lose them.
Shilpa JindiaGUEST
And, you know, really the truth is that Trump has lost on a majority of First Amendment cases in the courts.
Angie SethHOST
Six of its journalists were killed, and it became a subject of a ruthless crackdown on dissent after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.
Angie SethHOST
The newspaper's editor-in-chief, Dmitry Muratov, won the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Philippine journalist Maria Ressa.
Angie SethHOST
He was later forced to step down and was named a foreign agent by Russian authorities.
Angie SethHOST
And that is The World This Hour.
Jeff BermanHOST
I'm Jeff Berman, your host.
Jeff BermanHOST
In today's episode, Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger sit down with the incredible Nobel Peace Prize winner, journalist Maria Ressa.
Jeff BermanHOST
They discuss the critical moment that democracy is facing and how we scale our work to protect it.
Jeff BermanHOST
The actual concrete steps that all of us can take.
25 MINS LATER
Reid HoffmanHOST
Well, on that note, you can tell why a profile in courage, vigor, and strength who will never give up.
Reid HoffmanHOST
Maria, so thank you for joining us.
Jeff BermanHOST
Thanks again to Maria Ressa for joining us at the 2026 Masters of Scale Summit.
Jeff BermanHOST
Her new book is The Fight Back, A Citizen's Guide to Standing Up to Dictators, and a massive thank you to everyone who joined us in San Francisco at the Presidio Theater for what was truly an amazing week.
Geoff BennettHOST
On the NewsHour tonight, Republicans seize on a controversy in Alaska's closely watched Senate race, while Democratic surrogates make a final push to rally voters in Georgia ahead of Election Day.
Geoff BennettHOST
We speak with a retired Israeli general to examine what that nation's election results could mean for its national security and its relationship with the U.S. And Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa discusses her new book on how to protect and rebuild democracy in an era of authoritarians, big tech and artificial intelligence.
Maria RessaGUEST
You're living through this now in America.
Maria RessaGUEST
Don't normalize it.
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Nick SchifrinCORRESPONDENT
Tamir Hyman, thank you very much.
Nick SchifrinCORRESPONDENT
It's my pleasure.
Geoff BennettHOST
Journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa chronicled her fight against the Duterte regime in the Philippines in her 2022 book, How to Stand Up to a Dictator.
Geoff BennettHOST
She detailed years of attacks in her reporting and her newsroom struggle to defend press freedom and democracy.
Mara HennigSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
In about five years, there will be a shift to more apprenticeships.
Marco WermanHOST
And with liberal democracy under attack, Nobel Peace Laureate Maria Ressa has a message about citizenship.
Maria RessaGUEST
We have to reclaim our rights and we have to demand
Marco WermanHOST
our rights.
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Marco WermanHOST
As we just mentioned, Serbia's student-led opposition that ended Alexander Vucic's grip on power created a Viber group to counter propaganda.
Marco WermanHOST
Meanwhile, activists in Brazil created a digital army to help President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva stage a stunning comeback on Sunday by turning WhatsApp into a grassroots organizing network.
Marco WermanHOST
Maria Ressa has been thinking a lot about how tech can drive real-world change.
Marco WermanHOST
The Nobel Peace Laureate and author writes about that in her new book, The Fight Back.
Jeff BermanHOST
I'm Jeff Berman, your host.
Jeff BermanHOST
In today's episode, Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger sit down with the incredible Nobel Peace Prize winner, journalist Maria Ressa.
Jeff BermanHOST
They discuss the critical moment that democracy is facing and how we scale our work to protect it.
Jeff BermanHOST
The actual concrete steps that all of us can take.
24 MINS LATER
Reid HoffmanHOST
Well, on that note, you can tell why a profile in courage, vigor, and strength who will never give up.
Reid HoffmanHOST
Maria, so thank you for joining us.
Jeff BermanHOST
Thanks again to Maria Ressa for joining us at the 2026 Masters of Scale Summit.
Jeff BermanHOST
Her new book is The Fight Back, a citizen's guide to standing up to dictators.
Marco WermanHOST
Meanwhile, activists in Brazil created a digital army to help President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva stage a stunning comeback on Sunday by turning WhatsApp into a grassroots organizing network.
Marco WermanHOST
Maria Ressa has been thinking a lot about how tech can drive real-world change.
Marco WermanHOST
The Nobel Peace Laureate and author writes about that in her new book, The Fight Back.
Marco WermanHOST
A Citizen's Guide to Standing Up to Dictators.
Maria RessaGUEST
Nargis showed us the scars, you know, what happened to her.
Maria RessaGUEST
And she started really with so much energy telling us, That Iran, when she was arrested in November 22, wanted to kill her, right? And we went through this and we talked it through and you realize that there are so many people sacrificing so much for us.
Marco WermanHOST
I'm speaking with Nobel laureate Maria Ressa about her new book, The Fight Back, A Citizen's Guide to Standing Up to Dictators.
Marco WermanHOST
The Georgia example also underscores something else that you write about, the idea of federation, a kind of a global sensibility and connection between activists, digital activists and the street activists.
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