Tag: Online Safety
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🇷🇺 🇫🇷 🇦🇺 🇮🇳 Telegram Under Pressure: Russia, France, Australia and India Test the Limits of a Global Messaging Platform
By Panafrican.email Telegram has become one of the world’s most important communications platforms, connecting more than a billion users through private messaging, public channels, large groups, bots and an expanding ecosystem of applications. For Africa, Telegram’s importance goes beyond messaging. Across the continent, the platform is used by journalists, political movements, businesses, technology communities, cryptocurrency…
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Book Review: The Yahoo Boys: Love, Deception, and the Real Lives of Nigeria’s Romance Scammers
There is a temptation to treat online romance scams as morality plays with obvious heroes and villains. Victims are portrayed as naïve. Scammers become caricatures—faceless criminals hiding behind glowing laptop screens somewhere in West Africa. Carlos Barragán’s The Yahoo Boys resists that easy narrative. Instead, it asks a far more interesting question: What happens when…
