‘This is not AI’: Why stripping Senegal of Afcon title is a farcical moment in football’s fragile time

The decision to overturn Senegal’s victory and award victory to Morocco, two months later, opens up a chasm for doubt and post-truth, writes Jamie Braidwood


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