In Senegal, where social media sites play a pivotal role in ensuring transparency of elections, President Macky Sall in May began criticising people who hide behind their keyboards to “gratuitously destroy the reputations of individuals and entire families”.
He announced that he had instructed his digital economy minister, Yankhoba Diattara, to draw up legislation to beef up regulation of social media platforms.
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