Police in Britain have taken to social media to warn of the dangers of the Blue Whale challenge, a so-called social media game which is allegedly responsible for a spate of suicides in Russia. Home u.k.
During the horrific genocide in Rwanda, 1994, the Rwandan media played a major part in supporting, or creating an atmosphere to sanction the terrible human suffering that ensued.he Propaganda section of the Human Rights Watch report, for example, provides some in-depth analysis of how the media in Rwanda was used and played a role in the genocide, and how propaganda was employed in a variety of ways. Coming to terms with the genocide has not been easy for the Rwandan people.
If this is the mediaâs role then in normal course of events, it becomes even more vital in exceptional periods, one of which is electoral junctures, when the media becomes a primary player. Elections constitute a basic challenge to the media, putting its impartiality and objectivity to the test.