Digital Disinformation in Africa: Hashtag Politics, Power and Propaganda

In an era when hashtag campaigns like #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter capture global attention for victims of injustice, politicians and corporations are now spending billions employing Cambridge Analytica—type consultancies to manufacture disinformation — employing trolls, cyborgs and bots to disrupt dialogue and drown—out dissent. In the first study of its kind, this open—access book presents a range of case studies of these emerging dynamics across Africa, mapping and analyzing disinformati...