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A new report by the Mozilla Foundation shows that certain TikTok accounts are twisting Kenya’s fraught political history ahead of the country’s general elections which will take place later this year.  For the report, the Foundation studied 130 videos from 33 accounts with a combined total of 4 million views, many…

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The Kenyan government has announced plans to introduce a 20% excise tax on fees charged by digital lenders. Read more in #TCDaily.

Cheating politicians’ wives, sex scandals, murder allegations – fake front pages of major Kenyan newspapers are proliferating on social media ahead of a high-stakes election set for August 2022. AFP Fact Check has rounded up doctored headlines designed to stir tensions among voters, as experts warn that disinformation in Kenya is growing more sophisticated.

Clips containing hate-speech, political disinformation and threats of ethnic violence are spreading on TikTok ahead of Kenya’s high-stakes elections, a new report said on June 8, accusing the video-sharing platform of “failing its first real test in Africa”.

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

Mozilla researchers identified accounts with millions of view spreading hate speech and disinformation

TikTok content moderators' unfamiliarity with the political context in Kenya is among the reasons why some of the inflammatory posts were not taken down.

Clips containing hate-speech, political disinformation and threats of ethnic violence are spreading on TikTok ahead of Kenya's high-stakes elections, a new report said Wednesday, accusing the video-sharing…

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