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 […]
Secretary General of the doctors union, KMPDU, Dr Ouma Oluga has fended DP Ruto’s man, former Kakamega Senator Boni Khalwale after he his stone-throwing skills were captured on camera during Kibra by-election. Dr. Khalwale an unemployed Vet turned political mouthpiece broke the internet on Thursday and photos of him holding stones went viral after he […]
Kenyans on Twitter have thrown TCS CEO Nancy Macharia in a furnace and she, according to KOT, she’s next on the line of the cut, drop and terminate culture she has employed. This comes after the TSC boss issued KNUT with a termination notice of the recognition agreement with the teachers Union. In the letter, […]
An audio confirmation that one concerned Kenyan on Twitter has since shared on Twitter account of Mnur Ferruz has recorded a safaricom call center customer service personell stating that all remaining data bundles will be recovered. The audio also states that already used data will be recorvered from the individual accounts involved. It however, did […]
Jubilee is indeed committed to not only break apart this country with foreign public debts but also making sure the youths never gets a chance to get employment leave alone leading. From appointing old, inexperienced and uneducated folks to heads parastatals to now appointing old men who, like in this case, died more than a […]
Kenyans on Twitter have been running multiple accounts and the most viral of them, are those with the names of most prominent Kenyan, mostly who are off twitter streets and one of them being @JimmyWanjigi. Jimmy Wanjigi is the man who brought together Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto for them to form a government. By […]
Mixed reactions from Kenyans on Twitter popularly branded as KOT after the Kenya Navy led 2 weeks operation of retrieving the plunged vehicle was a success at last even though lives were lost. Here are randomly sampled tweets on different sampled hashtags and trending topics on the Kenyan trends. Ferry tragedy: Bodies, car retrieved https://t.co/FbyTR1Ho9o […]
Is it Terror-tich or Toroitich? Mixed reaction from Kenyans as the government thorough Fred Matiangi announces that 10th of October is a public holiday and not a National Holiday. Kenyans on Twitter shared their thoughts about the directive through tweets and here are a randomly sampled tweets under the hashtag #MoiDay. I remember Rtd President […]
As the country prepares to completely, according to CBK, do away with Old a thousand notes. Netizens have comically rubbished Central Bank Of Kenya’s tweet about the set September 30th deadline. It all started when CBK governor Patrick Njoroge posted this reminder Uko tayari?! Are you ready?!@CBKKenya pic.twitter.com/RluDGZWDLL — Patrick Njoroge (@njorogep) August 25, 2019 […]
