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Hitting the Books: Modern social media has made misinformation so, so much worse
In "Tyrants on Twitter" Professor David Sloss explores how social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok have become platforms for political operations which have very real and very dire consequences for democracy.
Hitting the Books: Kenya's digital divide is hampering its mobile money revolution
While mobile money apps have been slow to gain acceptance in the US, they’ve taken other nations like Sweden, China and especially Kenya by storm, enabling people for whom conventional banking has remained out of reach new ways to send, receive and invest their hard-earned cash. In Reimagining Money: Kenya in the Digital Finance Revolution, author Sibel Kusimba examines how apps like M-Pesa have radically adjusted the ways in which everyday people throughout Africa manage their money. In the excerpt below, Kusima looks at the financial roadblocks that prevents a significant portion of the country’s population from participating in this emerging digital economy.
