Asia and Social Control Media
statCounter reckons it's down from over 10% to just 3% since it began tracking those things:
Less than a decade ago (when Twitter peaked):
Two months ago: Information and State Control: Banning Social Media in South Asia
2 Oct 2025:
"Have we passed peak social media?"
So asked the Financial Times months ago. We passed it almost a decade ago and we also passed "peak slop", as based on our observations and some publicly-accessible metrics the usage levels of slop are fast declining:
This was 19 days after the report from the Financial Times, which may be asking the wrong question (or at the wrong time).
Many people revert back to what worked prior to slop and centralised propaganda networks, perhaps recognising that some transformed into clickbait, racism, and even child pornography slanted as "AI".
Society would be vastly better off without all those things. In Asia, governments are "ahead" of the West in curbing social control media. █