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How are the Ugandan and Kenyan governments silencing dissenting voices?

Both governments weaponize laws, push misinformation, and suppress dissent

Written by Prudence Nyamishana

1 February 2025

At what cost are we bridging Africa’s digital divide?

Challenges about foreign control, environmental impact, data exploitation, and limited digital sovereignty.

Written by Muhammed Bello Buhari

18 January 2025

How to use social media to win an election: Influencers from Kenya’s 2022 election explain

Social media was used and abused by both sides

Written by Linda Ngari

2 November 2023

Kenya draws inspiration from Estonia in its journey toward e-governance

Navigating potential challenges and taking lessons from Estonia

Written by Cecilia Maundu

3 July 2023

Unfreedom Monitor Report: Kenya

An excerpt from Advox research on digital authoritarianism in Kenya

Written by Chepkoech Rotich

5 June 2023

How technology has entrenched the authoritarian electoral practice of controlling political choice in Kenya's democracy

Interference, corruption, and autocracy are symbolic of Kenyan elections

Written by Chepkoech Rotich

2 June 2023

Kenya and the fallacy of trading individual privacy for national security

Privacy is often shown as a fair trade off for national security

Written by Chepkoech Rotich

25 May 2023

Kenya’s corporate, NGO and public sectors keep violating copyright laws on image rights

Image right protection remains up to contractual and constitutional interpretation

Written by Njeri Wangari

1 September 2022

As Kenyans prepare for a general election, how will officials combat fake news?

Twitter has become ground zero for Kenya's flourishing disinformation industry

Written by Njeri Wangari

24 January 2022

Behind the success of the Kenyan Twitter disinformation campaign to discredit the Pandora Papers

New report reveals a flourishing Twitter disinformation industry in Kenya

Written by Nwachukwu Egbunike

6 November 2021

Kenya police turn to Twitter PR as the arrest of a blogger goes against public opinion

Kenya police use anti-cybercrime legislation to silence social media users

Written by Njeri Wangari

19 March 2021

Kenya must implement data protection law before 2022 presidential election

It's a race against time to avoid Cambridge Analytica-style interference

Written by Njeri Wangari

16 January 2021

Seven African governments employ surveillance spyware, says new study

The snooping technique tracks phones and intercepts calls and texts

Written by Nwachukwu Egbunike

10 December 2020

For journalists in Kenya, ‘2020 is the worst year on record’

Freedom of expression is under attack during the pandemic

Written by Article 19, Victoria Rubadiri

20 October 2020

Toward a cyberfeminist future: A new study centers African women as protagonists online

The internet perpetuates systems of oppression and inequality

Written by Amanda Lichtenstein

30 September 2020

A new game plays with ideas about how disinformation works in East Africa

How can all internet users become more discerning online?

Written by Amanda Lichtenstein

16 June 2020

Kenya now has a data protection law. What does this mean for netizens?

Kenya’s new data protection law was long overdue

Written by Njeri Wangari

24 December 2019

Taxed, throttled or thrown in jail: Africa’s new internet paradigm

Across the continent, the legal and economic costs of speaking up are rising.

Written by Ellery Roberts Biddle, Nwachukwu Egbunike, Amanda Lichtenstein

11 January 2019

Censored in 2018: Protest videos, court verdicts, real news — and Peppa Pig

From blocked websites to revoked media licenses to account shutdowns, censorship comes in many forms. Here are a few we saw in 2018.

Written by Ellery Roberts Biddle

31 December 2018

One Country, Two Leaders and Four Censored TV Channels: Kenya's Political Crisis Takes a Toll on Human Rights

The illusion of an independent Kenyan media that is free from state interference has evaporated.

Written by Njeri Wangari

23 February 2018

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