There is evidence of an active, co-ordinated attempt to manipulate social media conversations on xenophobia in South African, according to a new report. Read full article
SOUTH Africans on social media, in particular Twitter, are being manipulated into supporting articially amplied anger against foreigners living in the country, according to researchers at the University of Cape Town (UCT). Read full article here
The Lerato Pillay Twitter account and the #PutSouthAfricaFirst hashtag is the kindling to a deadly social media fire aimed at foreign nationals in South Africa. Read full article
Study blows lid open on xenophobic PutSouthAfricansFirst Twitter network run by uLerato__pillay Reminiscent of the days of the UK’s Bell Pottinger fightback campaign for the Gupta family a couple of years ago, key narratives around xenophobia are being curated and amplified by a dedicated network of connected users. Read the full article here
JOHANNESBURG – Over a decade after the first wave of widespread xenophobic attacks happened in South Africa, the country is still fraught with xenophobic sentiment and tension teetering on the verge of exploding at any given moment. Sadly, a small network of faceless individuals have used this to capitalise on Twitter reactions, a new study …
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Users keen to continue spreading xenophobic content even create throw-away accounts or pay other people to spread content, according to an interim report released by the Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change. Read the full article here
South Africans on Twitter are witnessing the rise of an influential anti-immigrant lobby and thousands, captured by a make-believe character, ‘Lerato Pillay’, have unwittingly become complicit in the explosion of a weaponised conversation. Now, an analysis of the social media conversation by the Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change has deemed uLerato to be part …
Bloated with corruption and fraught with internal intrigues and divisions, where normalised deviance is the compass that points to the way ahead, might it be that the body politic can no longer endure the ANC? Might it just be that the ANC’s comorbidities render it fated to an abrupt death in the face of the …
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The Western Cape has had the most protest actions since the start of the lockdown between March 27 and July 31 Read full article
There has been some debate about the merits of shutting down the economy to stem a disease with a relatively low mortality rate, while many countries in Europe and Asia had no lockdown measures. Was the lockdown necessary? Read full article
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