AT the end of May 2024, several media outlets led by the journalist network Forbidden Stories released a set of reports titled “Rwanda Classified”. This reporting detailed evidence related to the suspicious death of Rwandan journalist and government critic John Williams Ntwali. The reports include additional details on Kigali’s efforts to silence critics. As a political scientist with a background studying digital disinformation and African politics, I work with the Media Forensics Hub, which monitors the internet for evidence of coordinated influence operations. Following the publication of Rwanda Classified, we identified at least 464 accounts that flooded online discussions of…