Mobilising Civic Action to Counter Violent Extremism Online and Offline in Cameroon.
An urgent community peace-building, training and conflict reconciliation project in South Sudan.
Mobilising civic and digital action to counter online hate speech and incitement to violence in Ethiopia.
An initiative that works on providing community-based and data-driven solutions to the problem of hate speech, disinformation and countering online incitement to violence.
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Donald Tchiengue, Digital Projects Coordinator of #defyhatenow, in the following interview talks about the Africa Factchecking Fellowship, its success stories and prospects.
Stereotypes and cliches are two frequent issues on social media that can harm both people and communities
Despite Cameroon’s anglophone conflict, the #defyhatenow Cameroon project reached out to communities in 2022 to educate and sensitize them to…
Recognised for its leading role in promoting #SafeDigitalSpaces through the #defyhatenow initiative in Cameroon, the Regional meeting aimed to share…
Ngala Desmond, Cameroon Country Project Manager, responding after presentation of the prize in Yaounde. Details below. #defyhatenow initiative gets it…
The use of AI for hate speech regulation directly impacts freedom of expression, which raises concerns about the rule of…
A total of 21 journalists from Yaounde, Bafoussam, Foumban and Douala were selected for the training in Yaounde on July…
#defyhatenow produces open for use field guide and other knowledge access materials.
seeks to support those voices acting against the conflict to go ‘viral’ within and outside the country – bringing the diaspora into the online peace building framework, bridging gaps of knowledge and awareness of social media mechanisms between those with access to technology and those without.