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‘People let down by government turning to social networks’
Published: 08 February, 2012, 23:19
TAGS: Crisis, Protest, Prime Time Russia, Anya Fedorova, Neil Harvey, Social networks
The Edelman Trust Barometer has found that people around the world have lost trust in their governments over the course of the last year. EMEA president Robert Phillips told RT what has caused such a downturn.
“Losing trust in governments is a worldwide trend, and Russia is simply mirroring what is happening elsewhere,” Robert Phillips, EMEA president and CEO of Edelman, told RT. “We’ve been doing the Trust Barometer for 12 years, and this is the steepest decline we’ve ever seen in the US and in the eurozone.”
Among the main causes for such a downturn, Phillips said, is the dispersion of authority and the rise of social media.
“It’s about the institutions being less trusted, and citizenship and peer networks more trusted,” Phillips told RT. “For example, in the eurozone, the economic crisis has not played well for governments.”
“Building trust requires business competence – making money, responsibility towards the environment, protecting employees, being transparent and accountable,” Phillips added.
The "Edelman Trust Barometer" is an annual survey, in which this year people from 25 countries were interviewed about their attitudes towards the state, businesses and NGO's.
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