I saw the video and it ruined my entire week. I didn't believe that such undisciplined brutality was possible from a supposedly trained postcolonial African army. Kudos to the BBC and Amnesty International for following up and proving this. If they hadn't done this work, the Cameroonian government would have gotten away with the canard that the video was fake news, the same way that our governments and some of escapist intellectuals with primordial agendas use the discourse of fake news to deny and deflect real atrocities. This is the double-entente of fake news. While it is a real problem, those who profit from it by invoking it to discredit uncomfortable truths make it impossible to confront the real fake news and its negative impacts. If agenda-laden entities hide behind the cover of fake news to dismiss any information or reality they don't like then people will eventually become indifferent to real incidences of fake news. That's the danger of following the Trumpian template of fake news as alibi.
On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 1:54 PM Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso <jumoyin@gmail.com> wrote:
BBC Thread Verifies "Fake News" On Cameroon Soldiers' BrutalityOf all the news on Africa I read this week, this piece above stood out with no rival for sharing: this is the best piece of investigative journalism I've read all this year, hands down. Simply fabulous work.In July 2018, a terrible video went viral. This video showed some Cameroonian soldiers leading two women and two children to a desolate area. The captives are blindfolded, and to our horror, shot 22 times. The BBC and Amnesty International raised a hue and cry. The Cameroonian government responded by rejecting the news as "Fake news", claiming these were not their soldiers, and in fact, this was not even Cameroon.This amazing thread by the BBC details step by step the measures they took to prove not only that every detail in the video was real, but also to identify every detail with painstaking effort. It is easy to read and follow, supported by the amazing AI and media technologies available to serious researchers and journalists today. Bravo to the BBC on this!Here is an explainer:The big question remains: but will the government now seek justice?In peace,Jumoke--Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso, PhD.,--
Department of Political Science and Public Administration,
PMB 4010,
Babcock University,
Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria.
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