Insecurity Insight looks at social media from an aid security perspective. We examine social media to identify when it is used to incite violence against aid providers or spreads false information that can be used to incite violence. During the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ebola outbreak, health providers have been particularly affected. In some conflicts, such as Cameroon, aid efforts are often politicised on social media.
Understanding the changing security context is important for duty of care for staff and access to beneficiaries.
To find out what people are saying in the DRC and how aid providers are portrait on social media in Cameroon – read our Social Media Monitoring Bulletin.
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MSF attack in Burkina Faso
March 2023
Social Media Monitoring
Red Cross Massacre
March 2023
Social Media Monitoring
EAC Forces in the DRC
February 2023
Social Media Monitoring
Wagner Mercenaries in DRC?
February 2023
Social Media Monitoring
Ethiopia – Disinformation targeting WFP
November 2022
Social Media Monitoring
DRC- Disinformation WFP Helicopter Crash
14 November 2022
Social Media Monitoring
Ebola in Uganda
November 2022
Social Media Monitoring
CENI & the Red Cross
27 July 2022
Social Media Monitoring
Mali
09 May 2022
Social Media Monitoring
Downing of UN Helicopter
06 May 2022
Social Media Monitoring
Ebola in Equateur
29 April 2022
Social Media Monitoring
Accusations by Ethiopian Gov
25 June 2021
Social Media Monitoring
Mozambique March 2021
INSIGHT: Claims war against insurgents orchestrated by government.
Resurgent Ebola N.Kivu
March 2021
Social Media Monitoring
Ebola in Equateur
November 2020
Social Media Monitoring
Cameroon
October 2020 INSIGHT: Preliminary monitoring suggests that initial recriminations among pro-independence locals towards Cameroon’s central government have not spilled into accusations or hostility towards aid operations and workers.
Cameroon
INSIGHT: International humanitarian organisations in the Northwest and Southwest regions are increasingly affected by the ongoing conflict. Social media can influence to what extent aid agencies are perceived as impartial, neutral and independent.
Ebola Rumours & Allegations
July 2020 Social Media Monitoring
Ebola Misinformation
June 2020
Social Media Monitoring
Rumours & Allegations
June 2020
Social Media Monitoring
COVID-19 Rumours
May 2020
Social Media Monitoring
COVID-19 Mistrust
April 2020
Social Media Monitoring
Central African Republic
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COVID-19 in N.Kivu
April 2020
Social Media Monitoring
Ebola in N.Kivu
March 2020
Social Media Monitoring