On 3rd October 2021, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) published the Pandora Papers, a massive investigation into how several public figures use offshore tax havens to hide assets worth billions of dollars. Almost immediately, the story provoked a sharp reaction from the Kenyan public. This is because the family of Kenya’s outgoing president, […]
New research by two Mozilla Fellows reveals how malicious, coordinated, and inauthentic attacks on Twitter are undermining Kenyan civil society Meanwhile, Twitter is doing little to curb this behavior, and good-faith activists are having a hard time on the platform UPDATE: After an internal investigation, Twitter took action on over 100 accounts operating in the […]
On May 18 of this year, the insidious hashtag #AnarchistJudges appeared on Kenyan Twitter timelines. Apparently driven by a number of faceless bots, and retweeted by a series of sock puppet accounts, the deluge of tweets cast suspicion on both the competence and integrity of senior High Court of Kenya judges that had just shot […]
One of the most vocal twitter user and Nairobi-based lawyer Steve Ogolla has been trending for a better part of Sunday—29th Dec— after he alleged a Facebook Woman parody swindled their KSh500,000 wedding funds. In a depressing Facebook post, Steve Ogolla narrated how he was financially whacked by a Woman named Dorcas Sarkozy, who he […]
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