Internet shutdowns have remained widespread despite the proliferation of a wide range technologies, including sophisticated ones, used by Governments for censorship, propaganda and surveillance.
One would not be wrong to call a section of Rwanda’s broadcast stations or at least their programs an extension of the written press that would run out of content and subsequently become irrelevant if men and women at the publications they review every day laid down tools.
There has been a rise in incidences of viral online spread of fake news over the recent past from false announcement of death of high ranking officials to defamatory claims that name and shame, and assassinate characters linked to criminal cases under investigations.
