Friday, August 27, 2021

Conflict in Tigray: Dueling Information Campaigns

 The Media Manipulation Casebook published on 24 August 2021 a study titled "Dueling Information Campaigns: The War Over the Narrative in Tigray" by Claire Wilmot, Ellen Tveteraas, and Alexi Drew.

This detailed study looks at the competing information campaigns related to the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray Region, which began in November 2020.  The case study documents the strategies and tactics of the Ethiopian government and its supporters and Tigrayan organizers and their allies in the diaspora and Ethiopia.  The authors offer an unbiased look at propaganda from both sides of the conflict in Ethiopia.