donate if so things like this put a stop in general how can it be my guest today is isabel lindsey from afraid of how she specializes in africa welcome to date of the africa isabel so we're talking about the surveillance on social media in the african conscious just give us an overview who exactly is being monitored on social media i've great to be here thank you so much so our new freedom on that report has found evidence of social media surveillance problem programs in kenya africa and nigeria uganda and angola and to give a sense of the kind of programs that we're talking about nigeria for example in their $20000.00 budget included an allocation for a social media mining suite of 2000000000 myra. right and so i'm guessing that this is this is it's a far reaching surveillance right it's not targeted at specific individuals but but generally the average joe can can be ever show expect that they're they're being surveyed on line. that's exactly right and one of our main concerns is that governments aren't just targeting individual people but because they're using ai and automation it means that they can reach everybody who's