Summary The year 2020 has opened with hate speech of various forms and magnitudes being observed online. Being the beginning of an Election year in Cameroon, one is likely to encounter fake news and Propaganda as well as Hate Speech on tribal, ethnic and linguistic lines. We have also taken note of the rise in […]
Synthèse Introduction Cette semaine a été animée sur la toile comme d’habitude par des attaques. Du monitoring de certains comptes et profils sur le réseau social Facebook, il ressort une prolifération d’injures et d’attaques. A l’attaque politique de Wilfried Ekanga, l’une des figures du MRC contre les militants du RDPC sur sa page, les réponses […]
2019 has for the most part been a fruitful year for South Sudanese in terms of responsible social media use. Apart from the occasional incidents of hate speech and misinformation, the year has seen most South Sudanese social media users being conscious of how they use social media, which in itself is commendable. It shows […]
Lucy is an administrator by profession, and has over seven years experience in the radio industry, having worked with Spirit Fm, City Fm, Radio One and Eye Radio in Juba . She is also a poet/writer and loves to sing. In October 2019, her poem, ‘Pure Cotton’ was featured at the Oxfam #IMatter launch in […]
#DefyHateNow is proud to announce the new Connecting The Dots fellowship, a three-months program for youth working in the areas of peacebuilding, research, media, and digital rights. This fellowship aims at mapping out current challenges and creating strategies to tackle the difficulties encountered by the information consumers . The program is focused on how to […]
The more social media becomes popular, the more negative trends seem to avail themselves online. One such trend is cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is defined as the use of electronic communication to bully a person, which typically involves sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature. Cyberbullying has been known to cause distress in people, social anxiety, […]
Previous observations by different stakeholders, scholars, and organisations including #DefyHateNow have revealed that hate speech has had a detrimental effect in South Sudan. In as much as the monitoring of hate speech on social media platforms has equally revealed that South Sudanese are presently more cautious in their use of social media, there is no […]
An article by Salma Amadore On December 05, 2019, the esplanade of the Omnisport Stadium in Yaoundé welcomed many young people who had come to discover the meaning behind the phrase “an ambassador of peace.” On the initiative of the UNESCO Cameroon office in conjunction with #DefyHateNow, a two-day event on the role of peace […]
*David Madut (not his real name), a Catholic priest in his fifties, was rudely shocked when his friends contacted him asking for their money back. “What money?”, he wondered. Little did he know that someone had opened a Facebook account using his credentials and was soliciting for funds from his new Facebook friends. Madut has […]
It would be accurate to say that the biggest amounts of hate speech and misinformation are circulated on social media platforms, most notably Facebook and Twitter. This is not in the least surprising since most of these perpetrators feel powerful hiding behind the keyboard and therefore social media platforms provide the most expected outlets. But […]
On 12th November 2019, the SPLM and the SPLM-IO in South Sudan were scheduled to sign a Power Sharing agreement which is set to usher in a unity government between the South Sudan government and the opposition. Prior to the designated date, many South Sudanese took to social media to demonstrate their anticipation on what […]
Ngala is a Cameroonian Political and Social Media Analyst. He holds a Masters Degree in Political Science from the University of Yaounde II in Cameroon. Ngala has previously worked on Web based projects as Social Media/Political Analyst where he supervised Social Media behaviors and detects trends online on the backdrop of the Anglophone Crisis and […]