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In an OpEd for The Elephant, Kofi Annan Foundation Consultant Abdulmalik Sugow argues that the current "information disorder" requires multidisciplinary collaboration. 

With the 2022 US midterm elections just days away, we asked 4 social media experts how Twitter can fix its enormous fake news problem. You'll be surprised at the consensus in their recommendations.

Paying for political influence on social media in Kenya is a shadowy yet lucrative business.

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Shadowy financiers are closing down a once democratic space on Twitter for political debate in Kenya.

A Mozilla Foundation report reveals that European advocacy group, CitizenGO paid Kenyan influencers $10 to $15 to spread disinformation on health bills and attack activists and politicians that support them.

Social media, more so Twitter is leveraged to deceive and manipulate political issues than foster open discussion.

The report by Mozilla indicated that after the Uhuru's name was mentioned in the Pandora Papers a cleansing campaign was plotted.

In the days immediately following revelations that Kenya’s president Uhuru Kenyatta held secret wealth in offshore tax havens, Odanga Madung noticed something odd on Twitter. In spite of the damning information implicating Kenyatta in a hypocritical tax shelter scheme, the prevailing conversation on Kenyan Twitter focused on defending the country’s beleaguered leader. The Kenyan president’s […]

The research underscores how online platforms based in the United States still struggle to police inauthentic behavior abroad.