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«Je me suis engagé à promouvoir la culture de la paix et le vivre ensemble »

Mahmoud Sabir, Boursier #AFFCameroon 3e Cohorte « Ce projet m’a permis d’ouvrir les yeux face aux montées des désinformations et le discours haineux dans la sphère digitale. Je me suis donc engagé à promouvoir la culture de la paix et le vivre ensemble au sein de ma communauté. Après avoir passé trois mois de formation en ligne et en présentiel à Douala, j’ai acquis des nouvelles connaissances et expériences sur plusieurs techniques, parmi lesquelles la technique de recherche d’image inversée, qui m’ont été très utiles dans

“I have also used the knowledge to develop a manual to train media practitioners”

Obah Rose, #AFFCameroon Cohort 3 Fellow “Thanks to #defyhatenow, I have upgraded my skills and learnt better ways to fight against misinformation, disinformation, mal-information and fake news. Before, I would never bother to weigh the consequences of these vices on the community and my credibility. Also, the Fellowship has enhanced my know-how on fact-checking through proper news treatment before publication. Thanks to the skills from the #AFFCameroon, I have trained many youths, men and women within and out of the media field on how to

« C’est une spécialisation qui peut vous ouvrir des portes dans le monde de l’emploi. »

Mathias Mouendé Ngamo, Boursier #AFFCameroon 3e Cohorte « Lorsque l’aventure #AFFCameroon commence, je découvre un projet bien ficelé. Le factcheking, je l’exerçais déjà dans la rédaction de Stopintox, mais avec #AFFCameroon je me frotte à de véritables notions à la fois théoriques et pratiques. J’apprends d’avantages sur les astuces et comportements à adopter sur les réseaux sociaux pour contrer la désinformation. Les exercices pratiques ont été pour moi la partie la plus intéressante de la formation. La veille médiatique sur les réseaux sociaux pour rédiger des

“The skills acquired are great and help to distinguish us among the crowd”

Doh Bertrand, #AFFCameroon Cohort 3 Fellow “The #AFFCameroon training I got has contributed to transforming my professional life. The skills acquired through the training now makes me a jewel in my newsroom as colleagues now rely on me to fact check pictures, videos or posts that we come across on social media and want to use to develop news ideas. The training has also imbibed in me the skills to counter social media hate, disinformation, misinformation and malinformation without picking fights with those spreading such.

“After my #AFFCameroon training, I had to edit all my social media platforms”

Mbuh Stella, #AFFCameroon Cohort 2 Fellow “After my #AFFCameroon training with #defyhatenow, I had to edit all my social media platforms. I was no longer proud of some of the information I previously shared. I even had to delete some! I’m particularly a proud #AFFCameroon Fellow, as the fellowship helped me look beyond the pictures and videos I see, as well as the claims that usually accompanied them. Within the context of an armed conflict, the fellowship opened me to tools that enable me to

“My key phrase anytime I want to report or share something now is #ThinkB4UClick”

Fongoh, #AFFCameroon Cohort 2 Fellow “My multiple training experiences with #defyhatenow have reshaped my reporting. Before, I used to think that as a journalist and in the name of “Freedom of Expression”, I could say or share any information that pleased me, just as I received it. My key phrase anytime I want to report or share something now is #ThinkB4UClick. With this guiding principle, I have not found myself again in the dragnet of the law, as in 2017 when I forwarded a text

« Je dispense un cours d’initiation au fact-checking aux étudiants journalisme et en communication »

Assongmo Necdem, Boursier #AFFCameroon 2e Cohorte « Il y a quelques années j’ai naïvement partagé un fake-news via mon compte Facebook. Moi, le journaliste, je n’en suis pas si fier. Si à l’époque je ne mesurais pas la gravité de non acte, j’ai depuis saisi combien la propagation des fausses nouvelles peut être dangereuse pour toute société même celle qui n’est pas démocratique. Je suis passé par la formation #AFFCameroon. De la deuxième cohorte à laquelle j’ai appartenu, je garde un souvenir mémorable et plein d’enseignements.

“I have been able to network with other fellows, share ideas and experiences”

Ndefru Melany, #AFFCameroon Cohort 2 Fellow “My experience as #AFFCameroon Fellow with #defyhatenow has taken me away from my usual way of reporting news from within my context. Living in an armed conflict zone, “everybody” passes for a “reporter”, “photographer” or “videographer” just to pick any kind of information and dump it on social media, as news. The internet is a vast space where content published for public consumption can be accessed by billions of persons at the speed of light. Thanks to #AFFCameroon, we

«J’ai pu compléter de nombreux aspects de mes connaissances en tant que blogueur »

Romuald Nguemkap, Boursier #FactsMatter237 et #AFFCameroon 2e Cohorte « En tant que boursier, j’ai énormément appris sur les Fake News, les discours haineux en ligne. Également sur de nombreux aspects de la vérification des faits, naturellement l’utilisation des outils comme Tineye ou encore Google Reverse Images et aussi le traitement et la présentation des données dans un article de blog. N’ayant pas d’école de formation sur le blogging au Cameroun, grâce à cette bourse j’ai pu compléter de nombreux aspects de mes connaissances en tant que

“I led one of the groups during my cohort and this enhanced my leadership skills”

Shatu Pedmia, #FactsMatter237 & #AFFCameroon Cohort 2 Fellow “#AFFCameroon started as #FactsMatter237 until the need to make it favourable for the continent. I was privileged to be part of the first cohort and witnessed this transition. I came into #AFFCameroon with a journalist’s mindset but left transformed owing to the onsite sessions, social media health reports, fact-checking articles produced, spiced by the cream of facilitators we had from all over. This has not only shaped me as a person but seen me transform the lives

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