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Kony 2012 Never Ended
Kony 2012 activists.
A decade ago, my friends and I were enlisted to fight an African warlord 7,000 miles away. The moral battle still rages on.
By Suzy Weiss
03.05.22 — Culture and Ideas
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Ten years ago today, the non-profit Invisible Children Inc., published a video on YouTube called “Kony 2012.” To date, it has been viewed 103 million times there and 18.7 million times on Vimeo, the platform where it was originally released. 

On or around the same day, I was in class, in high school—I was a junior then—when my history teacher wrapped up …

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Suzy Weiss
Suzy Weiss is a co-founder and reporter for The Free Press and host of Second Thought. Before that, she worked as a features reporter at the New York Post. There, she covered the internet, culture, dating, dieting, technology, and Gen Z. Her work has also appeared in Tablet, the New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among others.
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