Was enough done to counter incitement and threats that spread online during the recent elections? After ensuring that the March 4 general election went off peacefully, the authorities in Kenya have come in for criticism for failing to curb the wave of hate speech that spread over the internet. After ethnic animosities were voiced on social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook, commentators say too little attention was paid to the threat posed by online rather than conventional media. “The government was caught off guard,” Mark Irungu, a digital media developer at the media development...
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