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'Kony 2012': Viral Video's Message, Backlash Examined

'Kony 2012': 'Unprecedented' Viral Video's Message, Backlash Examined

03/08/2012

PBS News Hour

'Kony 2012': Viral Video's Message, Backlash Examined

Clip: 3/8/2012 | 10m 54s

'Kony 2012': 'Unprecedented' Viral Video's Message, Backlash Examined

The "Stop Kony" campaign that's gone viral in recent days aims to spotlight the atrocities of warlord Joseph Kony in Uganda. Margaret Warner discusses the nonprofit Invisible Children's popular "Kony 2012" video and the ensuing criticism of it with the Institute for Policy Studies' Emira Woods and Porter Novelli's Dawn Arteaga.

03/08/2012

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