"The first sign something wasn't right was when the Afar authorities, who offered us the interviews, insisted we conduct them in Amharic - Ethiopia's lingua franca - and not their native language, Tigrinya.
Then, when we listened back carefully to the recordings, our suspicions were confirmed - at times, we could hear the regional authority spokesman telling the teenagers what to say."
Tigray crisis: Ethiopian teenagers become pawns in propaganda war - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58189395