From KONY 2012 to HORNY 2012

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Russell, 33, "was taken into custody after he was found masturbating in public, vandalizing cars and possibly under the influence of something," NBC's San Diego affiliate reported, citing San Diego Police Department spokeswoman Lt. Andra Brown.

The San Diego Police Department's Brown did not immediately return two messages left Friday from Yahoo News.

The co-founder of the San Diego-based advocacy group Invisible Children was detained on San Diego's Pacific Beach "acting very strange" the NBC report said.

Russell's 30-minute documentary on Ugandan guerrilla leader Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army became a surprise mega viral hit, receiving over 80 million viewers since its release last week. But the film has also kicked up a backlash of criticism against the group, ranging from how Invisible Children spends its finances to whether it cut corners with the facts in order to create a more compelling film about a more than two-decade old Central African conflict.

But Invisible Children has also found many prominent defenders of its work, from members of Congress to President Barack Obama, who sent 100 U.S. special forces to Uganda last fall to search for Kony.

"I think that these guys are getting mercilessly picked apart by a bunch of intellectual elites who spend their days tweeting but never trending," Cameron Hudson, former Bush White House Africa hand, told Yahoo News last week. "If their aim is to raise awareness, they have done that in spades."
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Source: http://news.yahoo.co...-205649394.html

One of the funniest news article I've read in a while. :rollin :rollin

 
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If that's true, it is horribly irresponsible.

The KONY cause may not be the best one, but it has done a lot of good: it has shown the power of social media in movements on a scale never before seen, and it's forcing other, perhaps better causes to step up their game and get public attention, now that it has been generally focused in the area, directed towards the right places. I have definitely learned a thing or two as a result of the KONY project, and most of that from the criticism of it.

 
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