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As emerging economies bring their citizens online, global trust in internet media is changing

  • Written by Bhaskar Chakravorti, Dean of Global Business, The Fletcher School, Tufts University

Digital technology was dreamed of as the ultimate connector and leveler, the ideal destroyer of borders and boundaries. The digital community that assembled itself around this summer’s FIFA World Cup shows one example of a true global village, in which people share the same obsessions on the digital planet. That’s a significant...

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