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Kenya ranks high in Africa in digital technology, digital infrastructure and the use of emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning.

There has been an explosion of misinformation, disinformation and hate speech on Kenyan social media over the past two weeks coming from politicians, bloggers, supporters, and others who have blatantly misrepresented how they are doing, how their opponents are allegedly acting, and how the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) was conducting the elections. To inform users of the potential for misinformation, Twitter flagged false information sources with a disclaimer.

With elections related malicious content spiking on social media and a new Council for Responsible Social Media launched this week, perhaps its time to revisit what social media platforms, digital citizens and the algorithms are doing online.