Social media users in Nigeria and Kenya are near the top of the globe in the number of hours per day spent on social platforms. [...] Wagner-linked networks echoed Prigozhin in cheering the coup, encouraging the violent suppression of pro-democracy demonstrators in Niamey, and exploiting the confusion to frame the events as anti-France and as representing a momentous surge in African support for a Russian vision of the global order. [...] • The second largest sponsor of disinformation in the region are the military juntas in Mali and Burkina Faso. [...] Tanzania • Sudan has been swamped by disinformation emanating from the two sides in the country’s conflict • Regional and foreign powers with vested interests in the war (Russia, the UAE, and Egypt) have also been active sponsors of disinformation in support of their respective proxy. [...] Campaigns • Disinformation and inaccurate “doxing”—cyberbullying by sharing sensitive personal information—spread by online networks connected to the armed actors in the Ambazonian conflict in Cameroon have possibly resulted in the summary execution of innocent civilians.
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