Questions linger over Facebook, Twitter, TikTok's commitment to uphold election integrity in Africa, as countries head to polls
A dozen countries in Africa, including Nigeria, are expected to hold their presidential elections next year.
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A dozen countries in Africa, including Nigeria, are expected to hold their presidential elections next year.
Measures taken by social sites like partnerships with fact-checkers had little effect in stemming spread of misinformation.
TikTok content moderators' unfamiliarity with the political context in Kenya is among the reasons why some of the inflammatory posts were not taken down.
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 […]