🎉 We're excited to announce our panel, 'Tackling Gendered Disinformation in the Digital Age', at #DRIF24 in Accra, Ghana next week!

Connect with us, UNESCOEastAfrica and ARTICLE 19 at #DRIF24 , and stay tuned for updates and soundbites.

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🗣️Day 2 of the #Influence4Impact workshop started with Rosemary Mwangi from Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) highlighting the current legal and institutional frameworks for harmful online content in Kenya!🔍

'No child is born with hate, hate is taught,' she noted. #SM4PKenya UNESCOEastAfrica FECoMo Kenya

📣 Exciting conversations #Happeningnow with Angela Minayo from ARTICLE 19 diving into the crucial Inter-Play between Content Moderation & Protection of Fundamental Rights!

📍Day 2/3 of #Influence4Impact workshop in Nairobi! #SM4PKenya FECoMo Kenya UNESCOEastAfrica

📢 We're still on!
With Rachel Olpengs from Acepis and Wanjiru Nguhi from Fumbua shedding light onto fact-checking! Things to note: Truth is more than a collection of facts! What cannot be fact checked - opinions,beliefs, and predictions! #Influence4Impact #SM4PKenya

Our colleague Olpengs lead discussions on information disorder highlighting how controversial information spreads faster than factual ones.

'Traditional media have a code of conduct, making it easier to regulate them but social media cannot be controlled, content creators have a lot of power, but with power comes great responsibility' Kenneth Okwaroh ED, Acepis
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#HappeningNow 📍Nairobi
We are excited to kick off Day 1 of the #Influence4Impact training for social media creators and influencers! #SM4PKenya

'Content is king, but it should be levelled with some responsibility' John Okande, Programme Officer UNESCO

🆕👉 New Content Coming Up!🚨

This week, Kenyan social media influencers and content creators are joining UNESCO's #SocialMedia4Peace project and experts from FECoMo Kenya to build peaceful online spaces.

Watch this space as we bring #Influence4Impact to your feeds! 👀

I'm excited to be part of the Influence for impact training workshop by Africa Centre for People Institutions and Society and UNESCO Acepis @Fecomo_kenya @unescoeast

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We are in the digital age, where freedom of expression and online safety are constantly threatened by hate speech and mis/disinformation. Let's work together to make the internet safe for everyone!. #SM4PKenya #Influence4Impact @FECoMo_kenya Acepis UNESCOEastAfrica

💥We’re excited to introduce experts for the #Influence4Impact workshop, ready to empower content creators and influencers with vital skills in digital literacy, digital rights, and fact-checking. 💻💬 Together, let's create a digital space where peace thrives! 🌐 #SM4PKenya

Social media influencers and content creators can steer conversations towards factual and reliable info for safer online spaces.

With FECoMo Kenya and UNESCOEastAfrica we are coordinating a training to empower them. Follow along for updates! #Influence4Impact #SM4PKenya

💬🕊️ “The future of #digitalpeacebuilding is nested in the adoption of machine learning, but it’s key that we still consider the human component to account for unique contexts and language nuances.”

Rachel Olpengs, Acepis at the 10th #BuildPeaceConference

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Day 2 of #BuildPeace2023 will be highlighting the outcomes of the #SM4P project, & the activities of FECoMo Kenya will feature under this session. We've contributed to creating safer online spaces under SM4P & are members of FeCoMo and are proud of the achievements thus far.

We're glad to be attending the #BuildPeace2023 conference themed how technology and the arts influence identities relevant to peace and conflict.
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🎉 Members of our Coalition are certified fact-checkers! Showing off our certificates after a two-day advanced fact-checking workshop organised by UNESCOEastAfrica and Africa Check. 🔍

Read more:
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Find us back here tomorrow for the #BuildPeaceConference .