Internet has 'not become the great leveller’

"The internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be," according to Harvard academic Ethan Zuckerman.
He said that the web was now contrary to the original utopian vision and users focused on information from a handful of wealthy countries.
"It's making us 'imaginary cosmopolitans'," he told delegates.
Social networks, he said, made the problem worse with the majority of people sharing information with folk who share their world-view.
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