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Zimbabwe Police Arrest Journalist Hopewell Chin ono for Publishing Falsehoods
January 09, 2021
Gibbs Dube
FILE: Zimbabwe s investigative journalist Hopewell Chin’ono gets out of a prison van at the magistrates courts in Harare, Nov. 6, 2020.
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Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin’ono has been arrested again on allegations of publishing what police claim are falsehoods prejudicial to the state.
In a tweet on Friday, Chin’ono wrote, “The police have come to arrest me! Let everyone know!
They say they are charging me with communicating falsehoods for tweeting that a child had been beaten up by a police officer and died! They are taking me to the Law and Order Section at Harare Central Police Station.”
What’s new? As Zimbabwe’s political and economic crises worsen, South Africa is moving beyond its policy of “quiet diplomacy” with its northern neighbour and applying more pressure on Harare to open up political space and reform its economy.
Why does it matter? With Zimbabwe’s people slipping further into destitution, crackdowns fostering a growing sense of grievance within the opposition, and political divisions pitting ruling-party members against one another, the country could tip into even greater crisis through mass unrest or another coup.
What should be done? Pretoria should press Harare to halt repression and start dialogue with the political opposition to address Zimbabwe’s economic woes. It should work with Washington on a roadmap for reforms that the U.S. and others can use to guide decisions on reversing sanctions and supporting debt relief for Zimbabwe.
The East African
Tuesday December 15 2020
Instead of filtering out disinformation and hate speech online, the algorithms trained to identify these may instead amplify the biases. PHOTO | FILE | NMG
Summary
While application of algorithms may enhance efficiency, especially in the use of big data, its opaqueness makes it very difficult to determine or assess the extent of correctness, fairness in social application with varied contextual realities.
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A few days ago, my colleague Brian Kagoro, a renowned pan-Africanist, and his fellow Zimbabwean political activists had their Twitter accounts suspended arbitrarily. This set off frantic efforts to seek answers from Twitter but no concrete answers were given. Instead, their accounts were restored as arbitrarily as they had been suspended.
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