{"id":18874,"date":"2022-08-16T07:33:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T07:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/africa-faces-a-balancing-act-on-social-media-regulation"},"modified":"2022-08-16T08:46:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T08:46:19","slug":"africa-faces-a-balancing-act-on-social-media-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/africa-faces-a-balancing-act-on-social-media-regulation","title":{"rendered":"Africa faces a balancing act on social media regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>The opposition goes to the heart of a dilemma facing policy-makers across not only Africa but the entire world: how to regulate social media while maintaining the trust of electorates? Who is right? The Bill is certainly timely when set against the most recent example of online destabilisation targeted against Africa.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of October, the Internet Observatory at Stanford University in the US identified a network of 200 Russian-linked Facebook profiles spreading disinformation in eight African countries.<\/p>\n

With a combined following of over a million, the operation was directly linked to an infamous Russian tycoon currently sanctioned for similar interference in the 2016 US election.<\/p>\n

So the problem is real. But are governments also taking advantage of it to clamp down on the general vibrancy of social media \u2013 including healthy political opposition? So the problem is real.<\/p>\n

But are governments also taking advantage of it to clamp down on the general vibrancy of social media \u2013 including healthy political opposition? The Nigerian legislation is the latest of a wave of government responses that have attracted similar accusations.<\/p>\n

Cameroon, Ethiopia, Gambia and Uganda have shut down mobile networks \u2013 in their entirety or for specific apps \u2013 during politically-sensitive periods such as protests or elections.<\/p>\n

The government of Chad faced heavy criticism for shutting down social media for 16 months while it passed constitutional changes to extend the president\u2019s own term.<\/p>\n

Yet perhaps the closest precedent for Nigeria\u2019s proposed legislation is Tanzania\u2019s Cybercrimes Act, which also criminalised fake news and has been in force since 2015. As a test case for such measures, it has not gone well.<\/p>\n

This month Amnesty International published an extensive review of the country\u2019s human-rights environment, which states in reference to the Act that \u201cthese laws undermine the privacy of internet users and stifle freedom of expression [\u2026].<\/p>\n

People are increasingly afraid of freely expressing themselves online. \u201d It cites examples of genuine whistleblowers being prosecuted as a result. Dissent that is not allowed to emerge naturally simply becomes more virulent<\/p>\n

Such an outcome serves nobody. Suppressing debate is not merely a PR issue for such countries; it also does fundamental long-term damage to the body politic.<\/p>\n

Dissent that is not allowed to emerge naturally simply becomes more virulent, morphing into conspiracy theories and worse. The experience of the Middle East shows that political censorship is one of the most regressive short-term actions a government can take.<\/p>\n

Yet the temptation clearly exists for social-media legislation \u2013 framed to address real threats \u2013 to introduce censorship by the back door. That does not mean there are any easy answers. The issue of fake news in particular elicits a wide range of strong opinions.<\/p>\n

In the same week that Nigerian pop star Simi took to Twitter to condemn the passage of the country\u2019s social-media bill, one of the West\u2019s most prominent celebrities \u2013 Sacha Baron Cohen, the actor behind Borat \u2013 used a major speech to lobby for greater government intervention on these issues, starkly suggesting that Facebook \u201cwould have allowed Hitler to post 30-second ads\u201d.<\/p>\n

Such divisions do not just exist between celebrities and countries: they also exist between global tech companies themselves. While Twitter and Google have both recently stepped back from political advertising, Facebook is so far standing firm against similar pressure.<\/p>\n

Just as those responses reflect the cultures of various firms, differing regional responses reflect differing political cultures \u2013 from strongly authoritarian control of the internet in China to the more laissez-faire approach of countries with greater traditions of free speech, such as the US and the UK.<\/p>\n

The growth of the internet also provides an unprecedented opportunity for governments to reconnect with their voters\u2019 lives African countries, too, need a response that accounts for their specific pressures and conditions.<\/p>\n

The key transition necessary is to step away from viewing social media primarily through the prism of a political or security threat. Although such downsides exist \u2013 not least in the sphere of radicalisation and terror logistics \u2013 the growth of the internet also provides an unprecedented opportunity for governments to reconnect with their voters\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n

And here lies the particular opportunity for African governments. This year\u2019s African Governance Report by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation centred on a serious \u2018data-gap\u2019 at the heart of policy, and development policy in particular.<\/p>\n

Using the Sustainable Development Goals as a measure, the report concluded that only 40% of policy indicators have sufficient data attached to them \u2013 while over half rely on estimates or modelling.<\/p>\n

This shouldn\u2019t be the case when acceleration of internet usage \u2013 and social media use in particular \u2013 is throwing up terabytes of human data every day.<\/p>\n

By 2025, the GMSA estimates that around half of Africa\u2019s population will have access to mobile communications, with 3G this year overtaking 2G as the main type of network connection.<\/p>\n

Facebook meanwhile enjoys a 67% share of social media use, according to latest figures. That means a mine of information about everyday life \u2013 including the opportunity to gather those key-policy making indicators which are currently lacking.<\/p>\n

Viewed from this perspective, undermining access to social media \u2013 or indeed closing it off entirely \u2013 adversely affects government\u2019s ability to do its own job in the long term.<\/p>\n

Public money and limited policy-making power \u2013 of not only governments but also multilaterals \u2013 must be well-directed to be effective; with data providing the main plank of such efforts in the modern world.<\/p>\n

As such, countries like Chad should be facilitating the advance of the digital frontier rather than forcibly holding it back. Yet a rush towards data-gathering can also bring its own problems.<\/p>\n

\u2018Messy data\u2019 \u2013 i. e. data which has not been properly sourced and cleaned \u2013 can easily send policy-makers off down an expensive blind alley.<\/p>\n

At best, however, social-media data married to insights from behavioural science can provide a significant step change across the whole lifecycle of policy-making \u2013 from design to evaluation to optimisation.<\/p>\n

Considering the Sustainable Development Goals, issues such as health, education, gender equality, sustainable cities, strong institutions, and partnership all cry out for such an approach.<\/p>\n

This is especially the case as corporates will already be designing the architecture for such data-gathering, making them ripe for partnerships. Looking at the vast policy upsides to social-media growth should help governments find a more natural equilibrium to combatting the potential downsides.<\/p>\n

The key is to understand and improve people\u2019s lives \u2013 addressing the underlying sources of discontent rather than just their symptoms as they appear on social media.<\/p>\n

Enacting blanket responses to online criticism \u2013 which extend beyond the remit of combatting fake news and into the realm of censorship \u2013 only weakens the social contract on which a government\u2019s authority ultimately rests.<\/p>\n

Strengthening that contract means taking a more targeted approach to combatting hostile influence while remaining supportive of the overall growth of social media.<\/p>\n

The result should be a win-win: populations that enjoy all the economic and social dividends of the internet, and governments leveraging that same vibrancy to drive public-policy choices that create the best possible legacy for future generations.<\/p>\n

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