Are these youth actually being trained to fight “disinformation,” or is the UN simply recruiting people to help with censorship?

From MONUSCO. “From a smartphone, I will produce videos to echo good information”. Blessing Kasasi, aged 15, is a women’s and children’s rights activist. She participated in a training in Kinshasa supported by MONUSCO on the production of digital content with the help of a smartphone.

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Altogether, thirty young people grouped in a relay club and several other organizations took part in it late June. The objective was to build their capacities in the fight against disinformation, which is taking on worrying proportions on social networks. …

The attendees will thus constitute a digital army capable of detecting false information and images diverted from their context in order to oppose the real facts, thereby indulging in “fact-checking”.

Creating appealing content

“How to create attractive video content to fight disinformation on the Web?” is the theme developed by Giscard Mido, from the Digital Marketing organization – one of the two trainers.

In this module, it was a question of explaining how the telephone can be used to reverse the trend of “fake news” which abounds on the web. …

MONUSCO, which organized this training, wishes to involve several sections of the Congolese population in the fight against disinformation which has already caused several damages, with their harmful consequences within the communities. …

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(Excerpt from MONUSCO. Photo Credit: Getty Images)