PANORAMA: The Dark side of the internet

Uganda, like across the world, has seen an exponential adoption of the internet from the 2010s with millions of people coming online for the first time each year for different reasons.
The blocking of internet and particularly social media channels such as Facebook and Twitter (now X), the first time, on the eve of 2016 general elections in Uganda, was a key testament that it is a powerful tool to fuel social and civic expression. This tactic has since been borrowed by several rogue regimes across the world.
As reliance on digital technologies, which is hardly policed, to ease life grows so is online violence, from fraud to harassment of activists using the cyberspace to drive social change. We have more in Panorama#NTVNews #NTVTonight #NTVWeekendEdition
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