From salon walls to your phone: how Pinterest replaced the...
Cliquez ici pour lire en français Before Pinterest, finding an idea for a hairstyle, a dress, a room makeover or even a house layout often meant looking around you. In...
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Mauritania wants to switch off social media algorithms for minors...
Cliquez ici pour lire en français Mauritania is preparing to join the growing list of countries pushing platforms to follow stricter rules for young users. The plan was presented to...
Friend requests, pokes and profile pics: Facebook’s first years for...
Cliquez ici pour lire en français Before TikTok videos, Instagram stories and WhatsApp messages filled our phones, there was Facebook. For a whole generation of Cameroonians, the platform was the...
Tribalism, buzz, rumors: the platform mechanics straining peace in Cameroon...
Cliquez ici pour lire en français Every September 21, the International Day of Peace asks the world to think about how people live together. In 2026, the United Nations has...
Back-to-school photos: the hidden cost of parental pride online 🎒
Cliquez ici pour lire en français School resumed in Cameroon on September 7, marking the return of uniforms, new backpacks — and the now-familiar wave of first-day photos. Parents, influencers,...
Beyond birthdates: TikTok’s new age-detection push 📱
Cliquez ici pour lire en français Cyberbullying, inappropriate content, screen addiction, mental health harm: the risks tied to early social media use are now well documented. Yet despite the age...
AI is quietly taking over your everyday apps in Cameroon...
Cliquez ici pour lire en français It’s no longer just the technology you deliberately go looking for on ChatGPT or Gemini. Artificial intelligence is steadily working its way into the...
Your data is your gold : Côte d’Ivoire trains 250...
Cliquez ici pour lire en français Online, a single click can carry real consequences. That’s the premise behind a recent initiative in Agnéby-Tiassa, a region in southern Côte d’Ivoire: on...
Cameroon femicides: How social media became the court of public...
Cliquez ici pour lire en français Cameroon has spent the past several weeks reeling from an unprecedented wave of femicides. Between August 6 and 26, 2026, fourteen women were reportedly...
Snapchat’s flashback feature keeps resurfacing your past 🥹📸⏳
Cliquez ici pour lire en français For years, Snapchat built its identity on disappearing photos, spontaneous videos, and messages that felt built to vanish. But it turns out some of...