Analysis - Kenya's election shows that understanding how voters are influenced online is central to freer, fairer elections.
Meanwhile, the acceleration of digitisation and Kenya's energetic use of the internet have seen the expansion of digital campaigning. Across the continent, social media platforms' lure of anonymity still enables players to work in the shadows.
In settings where institutions of governance are weak - including the courts and the checks on power offered by traditional media - disinformation campaigns can severely undermine democracies.results ahead of Kenya's 5 September Supreme Court judgment on the validity of the elections and the IEBC's competence was apparently aimed at undermining an institution.
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