SNC 2024: Libre info leads an operation to combat disinformation

Bobo-Dioulasso: On the sidelines of the 21st edition of the National Culture Week (SNC) Bobo 2024, the online information colleague Libre info organized Monday April 29 at the Nazi Boni University of Bobo-Dioulasso, training on the problem of combating disinformation and the spread of hate speech for pupils and students, we noted on site. This project led by fellow Libreinfo.net on the theme 'how to fight against disinformation and the spread of hate speech' showed all the facets of disinformation to pupils and students through a communication from the former president of the Superior Council of Communication (CSC) Abdoulazize Bamogo. The speaker recalled that 'this is a question which is worrying for our country given the situation we are going through: a situation marked by the security crisis but also social tensions'. He said that 'in such a situation, disinformation and hate speech can have very harmful effects on our society.' It is for this purpose that the institution he headed, the CSC, had issued ten councils. Mr. Bamogo mentioned that 'it will be a good thing if these ten tips are really promoted'. For the publishing director of the media Libreinfo, Albert Nagréogo, the linchpin of this public conference, 'as online media, we know that today, more and more, young people are exposed to disinformation, to fake news. And as an online media that produces information, we are also concerned because when there is information that falls into public opinion, they cannot differentiate between the source, is it 'she is authentic. And then we confuse the different sources, Facebook pages, propaganda sites and serious media.' 'Sometimes Internet users attack media even though they are not responsible for the false information. For us, it is a phenomenon that is growing and we must contribute through our social responsibility to cleaning up the environment. We said to ourselves that young people are an important target. If we can provide training to these young people in universities, that will be very good beca use a young person trained in return means a large number of people are made aware.' Issiaka Sawadogo, a 3rd year law student, was delighted with the importance of the theme. 'We picked up something good,' he says, adding that 'we are in the digital age and we are constantly on social media. We receive information and share it. We have just learned that this information that we share, thinking that it is simple habitual gestures, can lead us to prison. He explains that the speaker gave them 'advice to avoid going to prison. It is best to think critically about all the information we receive. By leaving there we can be relays to our comrades who were unable to make the trip. It's like a duty for us to reach out to them and raise awareness. All social strata are affected.' The organizers of this public conference do not intend to stop there. They plan to continue sharing experience in several locations across the country. Source: Burkina Information Agency