Youth Leaders, Influencers in Talk Peace South West Cameroon: A Training in Media and Information Literacy.
By Wirnkar Melony Joseph Youth leaders, Youth associations, Influencers, Medias and Young Women associations drawn from the South West region Cameroon met in Limbe on the 18th - 22nd of April 2023. To attend a training program in Media and Information literacy. 10 Youth Leaders of South West Region actively participated in the TALK PEACE Project organized by CFI French Media Development Agency in partnership with Association Fondation Conseil Jeune and Adisi-Cameroun. Group photo of participants Nowadays, information manipulation, fake news, misinformation, disinformation, mal-information and online hate speech have made it difficult to get reliable information on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp. Putting this into context, the present conflict in the North West and SouthWest regions have seen the use of social networks and digital tools to manipulate information in order to start panic, fear, confusion in a large audience. Thus, media...