Best of the Week Award

“A video in Burkina Faso showing men in military fatigues walking among the bloodied bodies of boys with their hands bound surfaced on social media in mid-February. A six-week AP project delivered a frame-by-frame analysis of the graphic, 83-second video of the killings and tracked down the relatives of one of the victims: Adama, a 16-year-old cattle herder, piecing together his final hours. A soldier smashed his head with a large rock.

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An edit of the video by digital audiences producer McKinnon de Kuyper was among AP’s top social posts of the week, and the report circulated on social media inside Burkina Faso where the government labels reports about killings as foreign misinformation. Burkina Faso locals thought the video was fake until seeing AP’s analysis and report.”