@ZekuZelalem@dair-community.social
2026-02-04 02:17 UTC
My coverage of the November 2020 Axum massacre for the UK's Daily Telegraph.
The #FakeAxumMassacre was one of the campaigns that made me realize that Twitter was unfixable and that social media moderation needed an overhaul. It is being extensively documented by the wonderful team at @DAIR thankfully.
Social media was flooded with the Ethiopian version of Holocaust denialism for weeks. It was sickening for me, now imagine how much worse it was for mourning victims.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/02/26/eritrean-troops-killed-hundreds-ethiopia-massacre-amnesty-claims/
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@ZekuZelalem@dair-community.social 2026-02-04 02:28
There's a lot that should be said about the numerous prominent Ethiopian scholars, like this one, based out of EU and US academic institutions, who used their expertise to amplify Axum massacre denialism and attack researchers who documented the atrocity. It was a fascist frenzy unlike any I had ever seen. There were still people until recently who would swear nothing happened in November 2020. Institutions took no action, because nobody knew enough or cared enough to find out.
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@rustoleumlove@mastodon.online 2026-02-04 02:30
@ZekuZelalem @DAIR thanks for your reporting!