State says it’s assembling a digital army of young Kenyans to repulse misinformation, disinformation and cyber threats
At the same time, the Executive Director of Sharp Education Centre Paul Wanjohi said that instilling values in learners from an early age was critical in shaping how technology was used.
Why intelligence community fears Republicans’ ‘nonsensical’ policy proposals in Project 2025 put US elections at risk
During the 2020 election, amid conspiracy theories and hoaxes about Covid-19 and the presidential election, CISA flagged state and local officials’ concerns about online falsehoods to social media companies. This practice, dubbed “switchboarding,” outraged conservatives, who accused CISA of suppressing their speech. House Republicans produced a report on what they called “the weaponisation” of the agency, two GOP-led states sued the government (the US Supreme Court dismissed the case).
