I think part of the reason why American propaganda is so powerful is because most people only speak English as a second language. That way they are extra vulnerable for misinformation since they only get the American perspective. And since they can’t speak other foreign languages they don’t get the other perspective.
I don’t think this is realistic at all. Doing so would require global coordination and agreement which would be difficult as each country would want their own language to be the world language.
I do not think people outside U.S. are reading much NYT or CNN propaganda. CIA has always worked to have local language propaganda. Look at how VoA was/is promoting Russian language propaganda in the USSR/RF.
I’d say it works the other way around. English became the “universal” language due to domination of the British Empire and subsequently USA on global stage. Before that, other languages were dominating the scene.
In theory, with the decline of US hegemony, the languages spoken “universally” would change. Idk if it would be mandarin or something else
