Vijay Prashad: Why Rich Countries Become Racist？

In Search of New Narrative - The Global South and China 02

Why India people believe BBC is telling the truth? Why TikTok struggles to be able to platform and highlight views of the south？Today, Vijay Prashad will continue to tell us why media from the Global South is fighting for their own narrative.

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Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, editor and journalist, executive director of Tricontinental.

By Vijay Prashad 6 May 2023

Sometimes at night before I go to sleep, I watch Tik Tok. Tik Tok is not a western dominated app, and yet even Tik Tok struggles to be able to platform and highlight views of the south.

There's the hardware question, very important question should not be underestimated. The hardware gap means that in many cases, even media of the South has to rely on the hardware of the North. There's hardware things, don't have sophisticated satellite systems. 

But actually underneath that is even more difficult challenge, which is the issue of credibility.

At some level, colonialism has this legacy in our world where people even in …