Social Media as a Tool in PCVE
Purpose
- Social Media Apps
- Instant Messaging Apps
Learning Objectives
- Strengthen capacity for using social media in PCVE.
Social Media as a Tool in PCVE
Tutor: Sada Malumfashi
Purpose
Learning Objectives
Social Media as a Tool in PCVE
Tutor: Sada Malumfashi
Thank you for this course. I really think sharing PCVE films on Facebook can make a huge impact, especially in Burkina Faso. I think it is also important that African governments start conceptualizing policies that monitor social media propaganda.
Thanks for the enlightening presentation Sir🙏 Please Sir, you mentioned Social media platforms like Whatsapp having End-to-End encryption which restricts third party interventions so how can the private messages or videos VE groups are spreading on the above mentioned Social media platform and it like be monitored and countered?
Thank you 🙏
Thanks for this session sir
You are welcome. We hope it was very educative and useful?
very informative and useful. Facebook would be the main social medium to use in countering hate speech and propaganda.
Well researched and well delivered.
Thank you.
Quite insightful. Appealing videos to engage youths is a potential platform.
I think social media if the greatest tool here. When you conduct a demographics study, you will realize that there are millions of social media handlers in African. Larger percentage of youths in Africa are social media lovers. We should tap into this as a tool to educate our youths about the implications associated with terrorism. Videos and spoken words are very good. What really matters is the message you’re passing to the society.
That was so informative, woah! very powerful this social media.
Very well delivered. It is possible to counter narratives using social media. One of the challenges however is that while the violent extremists sell messages using emotional appeal, counter narratives use rational appeals which may not make appeal to the targets. Using creative approaches can help cure this though.
I think the best way to counter violent extremist is to shed a light on it using social media for example having peaceful campaigns on Instagram and Facebook. Keeping in mind that most users are youths if we try to phrase our messages in firms of short entertaining videos will really reach them .
This is definitely the way to go. We believe it is important to not cede the strongest tool – social media – and the middle ground of discourse – diversity, inclusion, cooperation – to the extremists. We must counter extremism with balance in all spaces. Good one, Ateino.
There is a need for proper censoring of social media information. information that may lead to terrorism, extremism and radicalization should be de-escalated
Considering that the world now is revolving around applications online, it shouldn’t be surprising when people who have negative ideologies masquerade as ordinary people using social media to spread more word about their own beliefs and in the process recruiting/publishing/sharing more of their own beliefs and even posts/pictures/videos. It is important to be careful about what is shared on any social media app, considering the global reach that social media has now. We have popular apps which can be used to spread negative ideologies filled with extremist beliefs, so everyone needs to be responsible about the information they share or the entertainment shared on social media.
Indeed social media is a great platform to reach millions of diverse people to help counter violent extremism. I have witnessed terrorists use videos spread through social media to spread fear and also to send messages to governments. Strategic use of social media to counter such fear and anxiety in the public jas also been done and also caution messages spread through the platform for people to be cautious. However, i have also witnessed propaganda being spread through the same platform, where a message of possible attacks keeps recurring over time.
Very insightful. I definitely agree that Facebook is popular with the youth and that it is important to create targeted content there. I also learned about some new social networks I wasn’t aware of before, e.g. Wire and Threema. Is there a reason why Twitter was not discussed?
I see the intersection this is quite enlightening
Thanks for this feedback, Alkasim. There is so much to do that we can do. It all adds up.
Lesson: How to use social media tools to counter-narratives that promote Violent Extremism, especially in Kenya, where on KOT many followers are youth.
Social media presents a new front for balanced, sensible, accomodative social forces to contest and take over the middle ground of public discourse from the extremists, radicals and insrugents. Engaging Borders will definitely like to participate in this, it is the central reason for our platform.