Iginio Gagliardone is Associate Professor in Media and Communication at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and is Associate Research Fellow in New Media and Human Rights in the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP), University of Oxford, UK. He has more than two decades of experience researching the evolution of distinctive models of the information society in the Global South, with a specific focus on Africa, and is one of the leading experts on China-Africa relations in the digital space. His most recent publications include “The Politics of Technology in Africa” (Cambridge University Press), “Countering Online Hate Speech” (UNESCO Publishing), and Digital Hate (Indiana University Press).