The pushback against Invisible Childern's #Kony2012 campaign has been enormous, often featuring the above photo (by Glenna Gordon) of the organization's founders. Elizabeth Dickinson critiques the video:

[I]n recent years, the LRA has fractured hugely—in response to international efforts to go after Kony. In incredibly violent starts and stops, the group now rears its head in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Southern Sudan, and the Central African Republic. It actually hardly exists in Uganda anymore. Having been chased out by that country’s military, it has sought the more lawless terrain nearby. In the no man’s borderlands and the depths of the jungle, it continues to mete out victims. But it is not, by most analyses, a centralized organization anymore, or one that any leader’s removal could stop. We passed that point at least a decade ago. There are also a host of other problems with the facts in the video—including the number of children soldiers that the organization cites. (Responding to these critiques, the charity says it is only relying on UN figures.)

Mark Kersten thinks Invisible Children's implicit solution - stepped up US military involvement targeted at Joseph Kony personally - will only make matters worse: