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When denouncing a regime on networks can save or condemn an entire movement.
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You're a young blogger in Dakar. For the past three days, a video has been circulating showing gendarmes striking demonstrators in a popular neighbourhood. The rumors are swelling, the networks are burning up, names of officials — sometimes false — You're already circulating. Your citizen collective holds solid evidence: cross-referenced testimonies, geolocation images, internal documents. Your article is ready. But the government has just announced an emergency bill against the « online disinformation ». To publish now is to offer power the perfect pretext for criminalizing any critical speech. Waiting is letting the rumor devour the truth — And maybe your fight with her.
What do you choose?
A — You publish now: the truth does not wait for the tyrants.
B — You keep the article: don't arm those who want to gag you.
Full analysis appears in 48 hours — come back and discover what your choice reveals.
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