Social Media Scam Alert: Top Ten Ways to Tell Kony is Phony
A week ago Invisible Children released a video that was immediately picked up and promoted by every corporate news and entertainment outlet till it went “viral”. Kony 2012 allegedly “promote awareness” of and contributes to the end of child soldiering in Africa. But is that really what it’s about? Is it, like the old Save Darfur war dance, another propaganda campaign to justify US intervention in Africa?