Dueling Information Campaigns: The War Over the Narrative in Tigray

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Dueling Information Campaigns: The War Over the Narrative in Tigray

https://mediamanipulation.org/case-studies/dueling-information-campaigns-war-over-narrative-tigray

After military conflict broke out in the Tigray region of Ethiopia in November, 2020, two contesting narratives designed to influence international understanding of the conflict emerged, playing out largely on Twitter. Based on several months of data collection and mixed methods research, we trace the tactics of the two key online communities participating in these outward-facing advocacy campaigns: the Ethiopian government and its supporters, and Tigrayan activists and their supporters.

Dueling Information Campaigns: The War Over the Narrative in Tigray