Algorithms and the News Media in Kenya: Emerging Issues in Data Policy and Accountability

Ogola, George; Cheruiyot, David

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-87086-7_5

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“…This view is in line with Ogola and Cheruiyot (2022), who proffered that the news media in Kenya also employ data mining on social media platforms and other internet mediums to collect information on news and developments in the public space. It is purely a matter of achieving optimal efficiency in news gathering and operations, although the eventual diffusion of the data they gather may be biased or focus on minutia and may lose sight of the big picture or story.…”

Section: Kenya's Casesupporting

confidence: 61%

“…No social media platform can get access to one's data unless one chooses to use or access information services on one of such platforms. In effect, therefore, individuals appear to surrender a part of their sovereignty to the operators of social media platforms when they elect to be on this or that platform and that the election to use a particular platform is not part of the basic necessities of life (Ogola & Cheruiyot, 2022).…”

Section: European Union Casementioning

confidence: 99%

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Foreign Election Interference in Africa’s De-Democratization Culture

Norman

2024

EJPOLITICS

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The 2016 USA elections appear to have made Russia the “poster-boy” for election interference across the globe, allegedly using tools such as disinformation, misinformation, mal-information, email hacking, leaking of confidential information, and others. All such activities are a threat to national self-determination, democracy, and the autonomy of the people. Since then, elections in developing democracies in Africa are also alleged to have experienced interference by the usual suspect: Russia. In Africa, the actors of election interferences have been expanded beyond Russia to include foreign countries and companies in past elections in Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Ghana. The next general elections in Ghana are in December 2024. In the previous general elections in Ghana, there were no significant allegations of election interference, although, in 2020, the specter of foreign election interference emerged in the political discourse. The actions of the domestic actors to de-democratize elections were mentioned selectively. It may be simplistic to argue in favor of election non-interference in Ghana’s political business cycle every four years since 1992, but the allegations are not supported by evidence and are merely anecdotal and subjective or based on geopolitical realism. What can be proven is the de-democratization of incumbents and other domestic political actors in domestic elections through open vote-buying by politicians and vote-rigging by incumbent political leaders. In such a political dysmorphic situation, it is difficult to accuse any entity of being the mastermind of election interferences in Africa.

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Section: Kenya's Casesupporting

confidence: 61%

Section: European Union Casementioning

confidence: 99%