Maria Ressa is one of the most renowned international journalists of our time. She created a new and innovative online news organization, Rappler, which was eventually targeted by the new Philippine government. Still, there is another adversary Ressa is battling: social media companies. Ressa exposes how they have allowed their platforms to spread a virus of lies that infect each of us, and how this has accelerated the rise of authoritarians and dictators around the world. She maps a network of disinformation that has netted the globe. This is an urgent cry for Western readers to recognize and understand the dangers to our freedoms before it is too late. It is a book for anyone who might take democracy for granted, written by someone who never would. And in telling her dramatic and turbulent and courageous story, Ressa forces readers to ask themselves the same question she and her colleagues ask every day: What are you willing to sacrifice for the truth?