Nairobi — Media professionals in Kenya are warning journalists to guard against using inflammatory language when expressing their views on social media as they do their jobs.
Hate speech in the Kenyan media was blamed for contributing to the widespread violence that followed the presidential election of December 2007. More than 1,000 people were killed and 650,000 others were displaced after the disputed results triggered violence along ethnic lines.
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