With elections looming, ineffective moderation on the social media platform has allowed it to become a tool of malign actors
Over the past year, I have submerged myself in propaganda, trying to study the information nerve-endings of Kenyan politics. What I have uncovered is how the production of disinformation became a cottage industry in Kenya, how disinformation can often be used as a tool to consolidate power, and how European far-right groups have tried to manipulate Kenyan platforms for their gain.
Something that struck me, however, as I waded through all this content was that I would always find several TikTok videos being distributed across platforms. So I decided to focus on TikTok to try to get a sense of the world where these videos were originating.
Odanga Madung is a Mozilla fellow, journalist and data scientist based in Nairobi, Kenya
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