{"id":188345,"date":"2025-01-11T01:38:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T23:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-urges-youth-to-monetize-social-media-use-responsibly\/"},"modified":"2025-01-11T01:38:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T23:38:59","slug":"kenya-ruto-urges-youth-to-monetize-social-media-use-responsibly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-ruto-urges-youth-to-monetize-social-media-use-responsibly\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Ruto Urges Youth to Monetize Social Media Use Responsibly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>President William Ruto has urged Kenyan youth to leverage social media platforms responsibly by monetizing their expertise rather than engaging in insults and the spread of propaganda.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Speaking during the official opening of the Nigeria Technical Training Institute in Kapseret, Uasin Gishu Friday, President Ruto encouraged young people to use the internet as a tool for self-improvement and income generation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">&#8220;In this college, the youth are using the internet to work. They are not&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501100248.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 President William Ruto has urged Kenyan youth to leverage social media platforms responsibly by monetizing their expertise rather than engaging in insults and the spread of propaganda. Speaking during the official opening of the Nigeria Technical Training Institute in Kapseret, Uasin Gishu Friday, President Ruto encouraged young people to use the internet as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":188346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660862:8cfda8908e5428a04717f47ef36c7f1c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,4688,430,4959,38723,257,16334,11238,3577,254,6810,6276],"class_list":["post-188345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-media","tag-monetize","tag-news","tag-responsibly","tag-ruto","tag-social","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urges","tag-youth"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660862:8cfda8908e5428a04717f47ef36c7f1c:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}