This chapter explores the role of digital technologies in debates around multilingualism in the Somali Horn of Africa. Somalia has often been understood as being characterised by a higher degree of ethno-linguistic homogeneity than many other African nation-states. However, since the civil war and state collapse of the 1990s, scholars have highlighted the political salience of linguistic diversity and the marginalisation of various languages and dialects (associated with particular ethnic and clan identities) that are spoken throughout the territories. Drawing together various strands of the author’s previous research on transnational Somali media networks, this chapter analyses the multifaceted role of digital communications in reinforcing and challenging the dominance of ‘standard’ Somali in a context of ongoing political fragmentation and conflict. It considers the significance of social media within civil society and political campaigns promoting print literacy and cultural production, as well as the language politics of conflict actors such as Al-Shabaab. It analyses the opportunities and obstacles that online platforms have provided for so-called minority language communities, and reflects on recent developments in generative AI. Here, language difference remains an important factor for conceptualising the rapidly-evolving impacts of platform algorithms on African language digital publics.