This issue of the Journal of African Film and Diaspora Studies arrives at a critical moment. As digital platforms reshape political participation and social consciousness across the continent and its diaspora, the articles assembled here confront an urgent question: how do African and diaspora media cultures simultaneously expose injustice, amplify marginalized voices, and reproduce the very hierarchies they critique? The collection opens with timely interventions in digital media studies. One article maps the social media-integrity compromise cycle across fragile and consolidated democracies, revealing how social media platforms both enable democratic participation and destabilize democratic institutions a phenomenon that touches Nigeria and Nepal as acutely as France, the USA, and the UK. Parallel studies examine media coverage in conflict zones and its capacity to expose human rights violations while simultaneously spreading disinformation, underscoring the persistent tension between journalism's liberatory potential and its ethical fragility. These analyses establish that African media spaces do not exist in isolation from global digital ecosystems; they are deeply entangled with international flows of information, capital, and power.