How Africa’s War on Disinformation Can Save Democracies Everywhere - eviltoast

This year marks 30 years since the Rwandan genocide in 1994, when a Hutu-majority government and a privately owned radio station with close ties to the government colluded to murder 800,000 people.

The year 1994 may seem recent, but for a continent as young as Africa (where the median age is 19), it’s more like a distant past.

Suppose this had happened today, in the age of the algorithm. How much more chaos and murder would ensue if doctored images and deepfakes were proliferating on social media rather than radio, and radicalizing even more of the public? None of this is beyond reach, and countries including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, and Niger are at risk—owing to their confluence of ethno-religious tensions, political instability, and the presence of foreign adversaries.

AfricaCheck.org

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    5 months ago

    You are not trying to have a reasonable discussion here.

    Sure US has its record like any empire, which is not cool.

    However , in another comment you are passive justifying Russian behavior in one of the few situations where US is not the bad guy geopolitically.

    Is there a way to explain Russian behavior besides imperialism?