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Nigeria: 2019 Elections - How WhatsApp Strengthens, Undermines Nigeria's Democracy - Research
Premium Times, 30 July 2019
WhatsApp, a cross-platform messaging and voice over service owned by Facebook, strengthens accountability and promotes inclusion in Nigeria's democracy, particularly in the conduct… Read more »
How WhatsApp Influenced Nigeria's Election - Report
A joint team from the Centre for Democracy and Development (Nigeria) and the University of Birmingham (UK) has spent the last few months researching the impact of WhatsApp on the 2019 Nigerian elections. The research reveals that the platform was used to mislead voters in increasingly sophisticated ways. But it also shows that WhatsApp strengthened democracy in other areas.
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