Facebook’s Cameroon problem: stop online hate stoking conflict


  • TECH
  • Monday, 05 Nov 2018

Simon Munzu, a former UN official, who is campaigning for peace in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon, shows a threat message posted against him on social media by separatists during an interview with Reuters in Yaounde, Cameroon October 3, 2018. Picture taken October 3, 2018. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

YAOUNDE: A video link posted on Facebook on June 20 showed a man cooking human body parts in a pot over a wood fire.

In Cameroon, the footage went viral. Some Facebook users said the man was a cannibal and that the video was shot in the country's English-speaking west, where separatist insurgents are fighting to create a breakaway state.

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