Regardless of where you come down on Kony 2012, the video’s popularity highlights the growing power of web video and social media in shaping public opinion.
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U.S. support against the LRA spotlights group’s brutal history
The U.S.’s new commitment to assisting in the fight against the Lord’s Resistance Army in central Africa is putting a renewed focus on the group’s long and brutal history of violence in the region.