Journalists and editors are under ever greater surveillance on social media. It's a fair bet that current affairs ratings have slumped as programs become more anodyne in a survey of Arab youth in 2019. An Emirati-based pollster found that 80% favored social media as a source for news rather than any other. And this is something I think that kind of repressive governments are delighted about. They're sort of devaluing news. They're happy that they've got a population that isn't focused on current affairs, that doesn't hold them to account. If you don't have that check and balance, it's very hard to see how regimes are going to understand the anger and problems in