Shadowy financiers are closing down a once democratic space on Twitter for political debate in Kenya.
Confronting harassment by Kenyan Twitter influencers - recently revealed to have been paid to promote misinformation - is akin to dealing with guerrilla warfare, admits an activist involved in a legal battle to stop a change to the constitution.
The research showed the disinformation business to be lucrative, with influencers for political hire paid roughly between $10 and $15 to participate in three campaigns per day. Some influencers managed to reach retainer level and were paid about $250 per month.Influencers interviewed refused to reveal who was paying them, but one told the researchers that sometimes the money came before the campaign and sometimes afterwards.
An agency that sells Twitter adverts in Kenya offers promoted trends for $3,500 per day, the report says. It all started on Twitter with photo-shopped images about those behind the bid to block BBI, who argued that the process used to implement the changed was flawed and unconstitutional. Activists were also portrayed as being funded by Deputy President William Ruto - a key opponent of BBI.
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