Top Kenyan Officials Defend Facebook's Role in Coming Elections After it Approved Pro-Genocide Ads
The NCIC said if Facebook failed to heed it warning, its recommendation to suspend the service would be made to Kenya’s communications authority, which oversees telecommunications and e-commerce in the country.on Saturday, Interior Minister Fred Matiang’i said that shutting off access to the platform would infringe upon the free speech rights of Kenya’s more than 11 million Facebook users.
notes that while some posts are “laced with hatred and intimidation,” others contain “peace messages” designed to counter hatred. It goes on to say Facebook has been used to “incite violence, but also to mitigate it.”The same document, dated around November 2018, states that areas not serviced by local peace committees — a tool deployed to solve tensions and manage conflict in various forms since the 1990s — are “more likely to be triggered by ethnic based content.
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