PASO — Pan-African Sovereignty Observatory
Media landscape and alignment audit. Trust here means sovereignty trust, not production quality. Western/state/corporate outlets can still be useful evidence sources while carrying high framing and capture risk.
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Media landscape and alignment audit

This page does not divide media into friends and enemies. It asks practical questions: who funds it, whose evidence it centers, whose geopolitical frame it normalizes, how it corrects errors, and whether its coverage protects or weakens African public interest.

Default rule: media embedded in Western, state, military, intelligence, corporate or former-colonial ecosystems carries a structural risk premium. It may report useful facts, but PASO does not treat its framing as neutral until source density, correction discipline, ownership, funding and historical pattern are reviewed.

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55outlets/nodes
44avg trust
0avg capture risk
16alignment types

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How to read the scores

Evidence measures usefulness for chronology and public facts. Trust measures sovereignty trust and independence from hostile geopolitical framing. Capture risk measures ownership, funding, state alignment, narrative laundering, former-colonial interest and elite-policy proximity.

Higher bar for “independent”

Truly independent media must clear a higher bar: public-interest record, transparent corrections, funding/ownership clarity, African-source density, ability to challenge Western and local power, and no routine laundering of foreign strategic narratives.

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