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Ethiopia Recruits Bloggers to Attack Opposition and the Eritrean Government

June 7, 2014June 7, 2014TesfaNews14 Comments

By ESAT, IN an attempt to reduce online criticisms and shower positive image of itself, the Ethiopian Government recently start to train and recruit paid attackers on the web to anything critical of its administration, the Ethiopian Satellite Television Service (ESAT) reported. In the the second round of new recruits, 235 bloggers were trained in Adama, Nazeret town, focusing on how to shape public […]

Government Media Strategy Needs Reform too

January 22, 2013November 15, 2014TesfaNews33 Comments

By Sam B., Now that the tempest in a teacup, the imaginary coup d’état, that was perpetrated over the internet by crackpot “journalist” with little respect for facts or context, is over, we as Eritreans have to reflect, yet once again, over the fact that we are being held hostage by western propaganda machines that masquerade […]