Musk is programming white genocide disinformation into his AI bot Grok, once more proving genAI is neither artificial or intelligent, and that digital technologies reflect and reproduce the politics of their inventors/investors/programmers.
#TechnologyIsPolitics

It's arrived! First copies of our new book just landed ahead of publication on Thursday. Edited with Admire Mare and published by Zed Books, "Digital Surveillance in Africa: power, agency and rights". Ten African scholars provide in-depth case studies from across the continent. #DigitalRights

Digital Surveillance in Africa: power, agency and rights. Excited to see that our new book is now available to pre-order from Bloomsbury. If you want to review any of the books for a course that you teach or a journal, I can share a digital copy now. Very hush hush.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/digital-surveillance-in-africa-9781350422070/

Minor infraction = 35 years in jail.
Major ongoing crime = office in the Whitehouse

My first job in digital development #ICT4D was in 1988 and it has been a litany of failure, White saviourism, pushing tech-solutionism and selling out to funders - as I explain in this auto-ethnographical chapter. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003395966-5/bringing-critical-ict4d-margin-centre-tony-roberts?context=ubx&refId=28540b87-11c8-443f-977c-9550a1b6786a

New online course on Digital Development by IDS begins in March. Sessions by Caroline Khene, 'Gbenga Sesan and myself on #DigitalRights
https://www.ids.ac.uk/specialist-short-courses/inclusive-digital-transformation-in-international-development-in-person/

Seems about right?

Facebook content moderators required to sign non-disclosure agreements legally preventing them disclosing that they worked for Facebook or the horrific content they are required to view daily. African Content Moderators Union.