There is a symbiosis between the world o online activists, cand trolls and kind of nationalistic propaganda being pushed by state media and the government at home. I think both sides have been guilty of falsehoods and exaggeration in this conflict, just as their forces have both committed atrocities. But i do think the most fectiv this information efforts are those designed to corrode trust in any independent reporting about the conflict.
The government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has expelled our correspondent. Abiy’s proxies at home and abroad are helping a propaganda push that is silencing criticism. California’s legal-marijuana market is enormous, but its growers are floundering under taxes and regulations; the industry is getting stubbed out. And a look at how companies that have withdrawn from Russia are faring.
For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer