The United Nations Peacekeeping division has launched a program to recruit a “digital army” of young people whose job it will be to detect “false information” online and replace it with “real facts.”
Known as Kinshasa, the program was designed to appeal to people like Blessing Kasasi, a 15-year-old “women’s and children’s rights activist” who was trained in Kinshasa alongside 30 other young people from a relay club who gathered back in June to learn about how to censor content.
“The objective was to build their capacities in the fight against disinformation, which is taking on worrying proportions on social networks,” the UN says about the program.
At the training, young people like Himlish Nketani Nsiala, a law student at the Catholic University of Congo (Université Catholique du Congo), were brainwashed into the art of presenting the “news” the way the UN wants it to be presented.
“There is no point in taking an image broadcast for just purposes, diverting it from its context and manipulating it in order to harm,” Nsiala is quoted as saying about the “fact checking” operation and what it aims to do.
(Related: While the world is distracted with endless bickering about “lab leaks,” the World Health Organization [WHO] is gearing up to become a global health dictatorship.)
UN “fact checkers” being taught how to better brand and market “attractive video content to fight disinformation on the Web”
Another module developed specifically by Giscard Mido, one of the two trainers in the Digital Marketing segment of the UN program, aims to teach children how to create propaganda videos promoting their “fact checking” efforts.
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