In early June 2019 Ezega reported that the Ethiopian government was considering a new law aimed at what officials called disinformation and hate speech on social media.
The draft sat at the center of a wider fight over how far the state should police online speech after years of closed media and a sudden opening under Abiy Ahmed, so local coverage of the proposal still matters for press-freedom readers.
Kept as media and politics archive, the Ezega report dates the government’s public move toward a hate-speech and misinformation statute in mid-2019.
Sources: Ezega