The government of Cameroon has launched a campaign against social media, which is calls terrorism .According to the government-controlled daily, Cameroon Tribune, social media is“fast becoming a threat to peace and a secret instrument of manipulation” promoting “character destruction, destabilization of public opinion and deformation of facts among others.”
It says if not curtailed, with elections fast approaching, it could be used by political adversaries to wreck havoc.
In a report by the publication, titled “Dérives sur les réseaux sociaux : la cote d’alerte” “it gave examples of how social media has been used to spread false news.