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How Twitter became a battlefield to shape Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict narrative (Daily Maverick)

By Tessa Knight for DFRLab• 23 April 2021

 A man stands under a Tigrayan flag at the Pretoria protest. (Photo: Shiraaz Mohamed)

Despite limited access to information about the Tigray conflict, aggressive social media campaigns – both pro- and anti-government – sprung from the Ethiopian diaspora in a bid to shape the dominant narrative for an international audience, DFRLab has found.

Several dedicated click-to-tweet Twitter campaigns influenced dialogue on Ethiopian social media following the outbreak of conflict in Tigray between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) in November 2020.

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