The campaign for Kenya’s presidential election has officially closed, but the relentless — and dangerous — flow of disinformation continues online, as keyboard warriors battle to discredit rivals by sharing fake rigging claims, experts say.
Campaigners for the frontrunners, Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto and veteran politician Raila Odinga, are circulating dozens of posts claiming that their opponent is engaged in “vote rigging plots,” said Benedict Manzin, a sub-Sahara African analyst at UK-based intelligence firm Sibylline.
“We are increasingly seeing false information which seeks to delegitimize the results of the election with widespread claims that the opposing side would only win through