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Posts push falsehoods around succession politics, the president’s health and harmful narratives about Lebanese nationals in Côte d’Ivoire.

This report highlights a series of coordinated disinformation campaigns in Côte d’Ivoire between March and April 2026, exploiting political uncertainty, succession politics and longstanding tensions between the Lebanese community and indige...

False online narratives wrongly portray Oromos in Ethiopia as foreigners who should be in Madagascar. Worse, some claim they are backed by the government to kill Amhara people.

As Ethiopia heads into a tense election period, old ethnic fractures between Oromo and Amhara communities are increasingly being amplified online. Longstanding disputes over land, political power, ...

In West Africa, fraud networks exploiting trust and fake legitimacy are evolving faster than platforms can adapt.

Fraudulent networks often try to make their operations seem very realistic, trustworthy and convincing. They sometimes do this by mimicking legitimate platforms and exploiting the identities of familiar companies. They then draw people in with promise...

En Côte d’Ivoire, plusieurs personnalités, dont un journaliste, un musicien et un religieux, ont été la cible de campagnes visant à les présenter comme homosexuels afin de les discréditer.

Ce rapport examine trois campagnes de désinformation coordonnées qui ont pris pour cible des personnalités ivoiriennes : le journaliste Daouda Coulibaly, le musicien Tiken Jah Fakoly et...

In Côte d’Ivoire, a journalist, a musician and a religious figure faced campaigns portraying them as homosexuals to discredit them.

This report examines three coordinated disinformation campaigns that targeted prominent Ivorian figures: journalist Daouda Coulibaly, musician Tiken Jah Fakoly, and religious figure Camille Makosso. In all three cases, networks of mainly pro-AES (...