SUDAN NEWS ALERT: BBC - How fake news from Sudan's regime backfired

25/4/19: BBC – How fake news from Sudan’s regime backfired

Flora Carmichael and Owen Pinnell reveal that after the protests started gaining traction in December, the National Intelligence Security Service (NISS) had created propaganda to frame Darfuri students for inciting violence, and pin the growing unrest on rebels from Darfur.

 Carmichael and Pinnell explain that students would be tortured until they admitted to violent intent and carrying weapons to protests. False confession videos were then spread on social media pages and broadcasted on state television.

 The writers suggest that the ‘’use of fake confession videos showed that the regime was trying to further its own ends’’ but was instead ‘’outsmarted by ordinary Sudanese people’’.