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4.33 AVERAGE
4.33 AVERAGE
Dnf. Not what i expected. Surprisingly slow beginning and eventually lost interest
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reflective
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dark
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
challenging
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This was phenomenal and beyond timely. It paints a pretty grim picture as to how Governments manipulate people using social media and how media giants avoid accountability for the mass amount of misinformation being spread on their platforms. When people cannot trust in each other, when opinions and beliefs become facts, when chaos equals profits in a capitalist society, its very easy for a dictatorship to blossom. Like I said, this book is very timely.
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
As someone who lived in the US through the election of Donald Trump and is now back in Spain, witnessing the rise of the far-right parties in real-time, not only here but across Europe, I feel so much gratitude for what Ressa has and continues to go through, in order to uphold democratic values.
This book is not only a documentation of her experiences, but a call to action, to publicly denounce corruption in governments and hold politicians and the owners of social media corporations accountable. We seem to be fighting a losing battle, but it will not get better unless we try.
[b:The Age of Surveillance Capitalism|26195941|The Age of Surveillance Capitalism The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power|Shoshana Zuboff|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1521733914l/26195941._SY75_.jpg|46170685] is not only referenced in this book, Ressa spends time with its author and we are privy to their conversations. Another extremely important book to read in order to understand what's going on. I'll have to re-read it soon.
This book is not only a documentation of her experiences, but a call to action, to publicly denounce corruption in governments and hold politicians and the owners of social media corporations accountable. We seem to be fighting a losing battle, but it will not get better unless we try.
[b:The Age of Surveillance Capitalism|26195941|The Age of Surveillance Capitalism The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power|Shoshana Zuboff|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1521733914l/26195941._SY75_.jpg|46170685] is not only referenced in this book, Ressa spends time with its author and we are privy to their conversations. Another extremely important book to read in order to understand what's going on. I'll have to re-read it soon.
Not the story I expected to read when I picked up this book especially after reading Patricia Evangelista’s memoir but I was pleasantly surprised. I didn’t know anything about the widespread use and abuse of Facebook and social media in the Philippines and I was deeply disturbed with the investigations conducted by Rappler chronicling the breakdown of democracy through surveillance capitalism. Another example of why we need to regulate Big Tech and continue advocating for justice and human rights in the digital realm.