TNTHOMAS NKHOMA

1. Article · Jul 23, 2026 · THOMAS NKHOMA

   What role should journalism play in Botswana’s national security architecture? (opens the original)

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   Security was tangible because it had uniforms, checkpoints, surveillance and strategy. Conversely, some of the greatest threats confronting nations today arrive without passports. Interestingly, they arrive through smartphones, social media platforms, anonymous online accounts and increasingly, through artificial intelligence capable of generating convincing text, images, voices and videos within seconds. The battlefield has changed and perhaps our understanding of national security should also

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2. Article · Jul 16, 2026 · Thomas Nkhoma

   The hidden price of manufactured reality (opens the original)

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   The headlines that stirred your emotions, viral videos that confirmed your suspicions, social media posts that fuelled your outrage and even conversations dominating your timelines were carefully designed by people whose greatest weapon was not a gun or a ballot paper but a story. It sounds like the plot of a political thriller. Yet it is increasingly becoming the reality of our digital age. Recently, Forbidden Stories published an investigation in which a former propagandist in the Central Afri

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