And then there’s this: http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/03/07/guest_post_joseph_kony_is_not_in_uganda_and_other_complicated_things
As I mentioned in the post, we must all do our own vetting. I don’t question, for a moment that the movie has its share of fact-stretching, but it doesn’t lessen the horror faced by Jacob and the others.
However this turns out, it still stands that the use of the social media is the most powerful tool out there... for good or evil. It just means that it’s even more necessary than ever to vet everything we see or read.
But posting false information is counterproductive, and this video makes people feel good by voting on the internet, but it doesn’t help one living and breathing soul with a beating heart.
In fact it hurts because the information contained in it is so wrong that it is like saying donate to me, because Hitler is bad.
It is taking advantage of white guilt and giving people the false and self-centered feeling that they are helping by caring and by pressing “like” on facebook.
This is exactly the kind of attitude that we don’t need to help the people in this region.