Zimbabwe: Disinformation, Misinformation the New Battlefront

20 February 2019
opinion

The information age has brought with it many opportunities as well as challenges. Is it not ironic that in this digital age where information is supposed to be available at our finger tips, it has actually left citizens disempowered and disillusioned?

Instead of citizens or audiences being empowered by having unfettered access to information, they are seeing the resurrection of opinion leaders of the 1960s through the rise of disinformation and misinformation.

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