Columbia Journalism Review: A master class in how to verify a video using digital tools. “DIGITAL MEDIA HAS MADE IT EASIER than ever for malicious actors to distribute fake news, including video, but at the same time, it has also made it easier for journalists to debunk or verify that news using tools like Google Earth. The BBC’s Africa bureau provided a real-life lesson in how to do just that in a Twitter thread on Monday, about a video that started to circulate on social media in July of this year. The clip appeared to show two women and two children being blindfolded and then shot multiple times, and the shooting appeared to have been committed by soldiers in Cameroon (A warning: Although the most gruesome part of the video has been edited out, it may still be disturbing for some viewers.)”
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Leadership (Nigeria): AUN, 8 Others To Build Database On Boko Haram Insurgency
Leadership (Nigeria): AUN, 8 Others To Build Database On Boko Haram Insurgency. “The American University of Nigeria (AUN) and a consortium of nine universities in Canada and the Lake Chad basin countries of Nigeria, Chad, Niger, and Cameroon has secured a preliminary grant of C$198,000 to build a massive database on the Boko Haram insurrection in the Lake Chad basin.”
Quartz: The internet, slow and sketchy, is back in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions—for now
Quartz: The internet, slow and sketchy, is back in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions—for now. “Access Now, a global advocacy group that has been pushing leaders to stop disrupting the internet under the #KeepItOn campaign, confirmed the internet was back as of Thursday (Mar. 1). While social media sites were back, users continued to complain about pages uploading slowly while some websites still couldn’t be accessed without a virtual private network.”
Quartz: Cameroon has restricted internet access for more than 150 days in 2017
Quartz: Cameroon has restricted internet access for more than 150 days in 2017. “For almost two months now, Cameroon’s government has restricted access to social media and messaging apps in its Anglophone regions, adding to the already simmering tensions in the country.”
Quartz: Cameroon is disrupting the internet in its English-speaking regions to stifle protests again
Quartz: Cameroon is disrupting the internet in its English-speaking regions to stifle protests again. “Cameroon has once again disrupted internet connection it its restive North West and South West Anglophone regions in the wake of fresh mass protests. The interference has largely affected social media sites like WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter.”
Cameroon Government Launches Campaign Against Social Media
The government of Cameroon has launched a campaign against social media. “The government of Cameroon has launched a campaign against social media, which according to the government-controlled daily, Cameroon Tribune, is ‘fast becoming a threat to peace and a secret instrument of manipulation’ promoting ‘character destruction, destabilisation of public opinion and deformation of facts among others.'”
