It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonised, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.” – Tsitsi Dangarembga,Since 2012, the number of countries surveyed in the Reuters Institute’s report on the state of digital news has grown from five to 38, and this is the first year that South Africa, or indeed any African country, has been included.
In my darker moments, I think of the overweening US platforms as colonising powers, colonising powers that are more analogous to great religious movements than empires. In the same way that Christianity was the thinking and community platform that enabled the colonisation of people the US social media platforms are the engine that drives the digital imperialism of the West.
We can find a silver lining if we want to. The fact that we’re so worried about untrustworthy news sources means that, conceivably, consumers will cleave to the trusted news brands. Globally, 26% say they have started relying on more “reputable” sources of news, and this is as high as 40% in the US. And 24% of respondents say they’ve stopped using sources that had a dubious reputation in the last year.
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