Campaigners Against Misinformation and Disinformation in Liberia (CAMDL), a local nonprofit improving community resilience to false information, has hosted a Media and Digital Literacy Training for marketeers, including people with disabilities.
The Marketeers learned how to evaluate the reliability of websites and links and how to trace an image source online.
False information endangers Liberia’s peace, rule of law, democracy,
development, and governance. The training gathered over twenty (20) marketeers from Fiamah and 12th Street Markets at the Future Intellectual Discourse next to Fiamah Market in Monrovia on Friday, June 20, 2025.
At the start of the training, Taweh Johnson, Executive Director of Campaigners Against Misinformation and Disinformation in Liberia, mentioned that the initiative intends to safeguard vendors from becoming victims of online fraud and scams in Liberia.
Many marketeers at the training shared distressing testimonies of how they suffered significant financial losses as a result of Smart AI, an online scam in 2023. The marketeers applauded CAMDL for the useful knowledge and skills in detecting and preventing digital fraud and scams.
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