Twitter was a minefield of false information during the 2019 Nigerian elections

Ethnic hate speech and disinformation were rife on Twitter

Global Voices
Nov 8 · 8 min read

By Nwachukwu Egbunike

This story is the second in a two-part series on online ethnic hate speech, disinformation and propaganda during the 2019 Nigeria elections. You can read the first part here.

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