Last November, Cameroonian journalist Mimi Mefo Takambou was handcuffed and taken to jail.

Her apparent crime? A social media post attributing the killing of American missionary, Charles Wesco, to the Cameroonian military.

“I was in shock,” Mefo told me. “I was really in shock. But not surprised, in the sense that we are in a country where journalists are thrown into jail for doing their job.”

The bigger surprise was the charge laid against her: propagating “false information,” according to her lawyer. Or, to put it more bluntly, spreading fake news.