Curtailing Hate: Cohort 3 AFF Fellows- DefyHateNow Set To Move Out of Comfort Zones
By Rosaline Obah Fellows of the Cohort 3 Africa Fact-checking Fellowship (AFF) Cameroon made up of journalists and bloggers have been challenged to move out of their comfort zones and be of veritable service towards a Hate-free Cameroon. This was at the end of a two-day “Discovery,” session in Douala November 20 -21, 2020. While baptizing the 3rd batch at the end of the session, the Country Director of DefyHateNow, Desmond Ngala, remains hopeful that the media professionals will dare to be different after embracing professional skills that will enhance their reporting and also ensure a hate-free society. Desmond Ngala went further to encourage the Fellows to work together on issues around fact- checking, misinformation, disinformation, mal-information and hate speech, concerns according to him, are timely especially with the effect these have had on the escalating nature of the crisis especially in the two English speaking regions of the country that has affected virtually all ot