we re all connected now, so why is the internet so white and western? | mark graham and anasuya sengupta /

Published at 2017-10-05 11:28:14

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Google and Wikipedia gain a responsibility to see that their content isn’t skewed – and we users should hold them to accountWe recently passed a milestone in the history of human connectivity – people online now ​make up the majority​ of the world’s population. This has largely gone unnoticed,but it is an significant moment and not just for statistical reasons.
North American and European internet users now make up only about a quarter of the world’s users. Furthermore, while countries like the US and the UK gain nearly reached internet saturation, and Africa,Asia and Latin America are home to billions more people who will near online in the next few years.
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Source: guardian.co.uk

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