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Online indoctrination

January 26, 2015

Nearly 30 German video bloggers are using the hashtag #YouGeHA to introduce younger audiences to topics like racism, homophobia and discrimination. But not every social media campaign has good intentions.

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Normally, German YouTube sites like Kwink, Dailyknoedel and LeFloid feature entertaining content. But for a week recently they got serious. Under hashtag #YouGeHa, they produced and posted videos against xenophobia and for tolerance. But one fund-raising campaign has come under criticism: a video under the hashtag #Kony2012 protested against Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony and collect donations for children who suffered at his hand. But allegedly, only 37 percent of the money collected actually arrived in Africa.