In the corner of a light, airy room in Nairobi, three young Kenyans are staring at computer screens, quietly scrolling through thousands of blogs, tweets and comments, searching for hate speech before the Kenyan general election.Amid fears that the vote will descend into the kind of violence that followed the election in 2007, when at least 1,200 people were killed, a research project has been launched to monitor the way political issues are discussed online.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/31/kenyan-web-monitors-election-violence
Kenyan web monitors work to avert election violence
In the corner of a light, airy room in Nairobi, three young Kenyans are staring at computer screens, quietly scrolling through thousands of blogs, tweets and comments, searching for hate speech before the Kenyan general election.