In June 2019 Halefom H. Abraha published an LSE Media Policy Project analysis arguing that Ethiopia’s April draft law on hate speech and disinformation carried serious free-expression and enforcement risks.
The essay sat beside domestic reporting that the government wanted new tools against online hate, so the LSE critique remains a useful counterpoint for readers studying the reform-era media fight.
Kept as media analysis archive, the piece dates scholarly warnings about the draft statute before it hardened into later law.
Sources: LSE Media Policy Project