Let's be fair. Uhalisi mbadala si kwa Tanzania tu. Hebu angalia habari kwenye runinga sasa hivi. Unaweza kudhani mwisho wa dunia umeshafika kitambo. Kama sio itikadi ya Trump na his far-right, Neo-Nazi, alt-right, nationalist, fascist, racist... thugs kuonekana kama inateka dunia basi ni tishio la global warming, au carbon sijui imefanyaje, au ni mauaji yanayofanywa na Saudi Arabia huko Yemen, au ni unyama wa Israel huko Palestine, au tishio la ugaidi from ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Taleban, Al-Shabaab au Boko Haram... Au rising sea level, au global poverty au migrant crisis... au Brexit... Au the threat from Putin/Russia.... Fake news a.k.a alternative truth... Global financial crisis... Antibiotics kufeli... Tiba ya Ukimwi kuwa kitendawili...potential kwa AI kutumiwa vibaya... Dark Web taking over... nk, nk, nk
Na uhalisia mbadala sio kuhusu Tanzania au ulimwengu tu bali hata hapo ulipo Marekani. Picha tunayopata wengine tulio nje ya nchi yenu ni kuhusu ubaguzi wa kutisha zaidi ya watu weusi, taifa kubwa kabisa duniani kuendeshwa na kichaa Trump, Russia na Putin kuiendesha Marekani kwa rimoti kupitia Trump, NSA kama big brother, opioid crisis, right wing conspiracies, etc, etc, etc.
Je habari pekee duniani, au kutoka Marekani, au kutoka Tanzania ni hizo za uhalisi mbadala? Absolutely not. Je ni lazima kukutana nazo. Almost certainly not. Most of stuff we meet online ni kutokana na poor choices zetu au kuwa less informed about how to use the internet.
Hata hapa Jamii Forums, unaweza kunufaika vya kutosha tu ukijihangaisha kufahamu nani gwiji wa fake news, nani kada, nani anaongea point, nk. Twaishi zama zinazohitaji "akili kumkichwa."
I stand to be corrected.