Yesterday, a viral video appeared on my Facebook newsfeeds. The last time I checked it, the youtube video had only 5k views. In one night, it has reached over a MILLION views. Basically, the content is about Joseph Kony, the leader of an Ugandan guerilla group called the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army). The creator behind this broadcast, Jason Russell, is raising a campaign in order to arrest Joseph Kony for his cruel doings (such as abducting children to be soldiers, rape, prostitution, etc). The campaign video is about 30 minutes long. The narrator (Jason Russell) first introduced a series of shocking images and ended it with an inspirational message. No wonder it was able to capture my attention, since the video-maker of KONY 2012 (name of the video) was able to leverage human psychology to affect us, viewers, emotionally. Foolishly followed the social trend, I shared the link. However, today, someone showed me another website which exposed the real motives of the whole campaign, and made me realize how stupid it is to believe something without doing any research.
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/qln68/am_i_the_only_one_who_is_suspicious_about/
As I mentioned earlier, KONY 2012 has a sole purpose to make Joseph Kony "famous" so that the US Government will consider the "severity" of the situation and conduct a mission to arrest the man, who supposedly should be in Uganda. However, many other sources are saying that Joseph Kony no longer lives in Uganda and even speculate that he is DEAD already.
Okay, this blog post is getting long. Key learning from this experience...
Believe none of what you hear, and half of what you see - Benjamin Franklin
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