• Facebook struggles as Russia steps up presence in unstable west Africa | World news | The Guardian

  “A report by investigators from the Digital Forensic Lab, a global network of digital forensic researchers run by US-based thinktank the Atlantic Council, reveals how pro-Russian Facebook pages in Mali coordinated support for anti-democracy protests and the Wagner group, a controversial Russian private military contractor that was invited into the unstable country last year after the overthrow of President Bah N’daw by the military.”

  Tags: ITGS, facebook, social media, misinformation, control, integrity

  • – By dr tech

• ‘Voice of April’: Chinese netizens get creative to keep censored film on social media | China | The Guardian

  “A virtual protest has taken place on China’s heavily monitored social media platforms, where netizens took turns to keep a censored video called the Voice of April alive and overwhelm censors.”

  Tags: ITGS, censorship, social media, china, people and machines, voice of april

  • – By dr tech

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