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'Social media propaganda secretaries': the job title for the online influencers being hired by Nigerian politicians to run disinformation and fake news campaigns. @HassanIdayat and @JCHitchen went to meet some of them in Kano, and the details are wild. mg.co.za/article/2019-0…
We are really excited to publish the @mailandguardian's first ever story in Hausa, on the people who were running fake news and disinformation campaigns in Kano ahead of the Nigerian election: mg.co.za/article/2019-0…
Binciken da @HassanIdayat da @jchitchen suka gabatar a Kano kan yadda aka yi amfani da WhatsApp a zaben da ya gabata. (Godiya ga Aliyu Dahiru Aliyu da ya fassara zuwa Hausa) mg.co.za/article/2019-0…
Read in conjunction with this other fascinating @HassanIdayat analysis on how Nigerian politicians are weaponising fake news. And it's by no means an exclusively Nigerian problem. mg.co.za/article/2019-0…
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The news from Zimbabwe this morning is grim. I just spoke to an activist in Harare who says they have never seen violence and brutality on this scale. The crackdown came in response to protests against a dramatic fuel increase. #ZimbabweShutdown.
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