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Government Kenya denied the possibility of suspending the social network facebook after the national body threatened the platform if it did not control hate speech ahead of the August 9 elections.
This Friday, the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) announced that it would recommend the suspension facebookowned by Meta unless the social network corrects misinformation and hatred regarding the general election in the next seven days.
“The media, including social media, will maintain FREEDOM OF THE PRESS in Kenya,” Kenyan Minister of Information, Communications and Technology Joseph Mucheru said Saturday.
“It is not clear what legal framework NCIC plans to use to suspend facebook. (…) We are not going to turn off the Internet,” the minister added.
However, NCIC Commissioner Danvas Makori assured that this government agency had already contacted the Office of Communications. Kenya (CA) – under the portfolio umbrella of Mucheru – and who has the authority to make the suspension effective.
The NCIC ultimatum came after Global Witness and Floxglove said the social network “cannot detect hate speech ads in the country’s two official languages: English D Swahili“.
As a test, the researchers requested publication facebook of twenty advertisements containing examples of hate speech and incitement to violence in both languages.
The ad, which was always taken down by the organizations before its final publication, bypassed social media scrutiny despite containing “dehumanizing” discourse, likening certain tribal groups to animals and calling for rape, beheading and murder.” .
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A spokesperson for Meta acknowledged that while there are “special Swahili speaking groups” and experts focused on voting, “there will be things we’re missing out on” and assured that they will address these issues “as soon as possible.”
Spreading hate speech and disinformation through social media in Kenya during the election period, he was monitored by various organizations in the country, where past elections have provoked serious episodes of ethnic violence.
The worst happened during the 2007 elections, when post-election violence resulted in at least 1,300 deaths and the displacement of more than 600,000. EFE
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