UCT deep dive into xenophobia on Twitter
UCT’s Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change has found evidence of attempts to manipulate conversations with a xenophobic tone on South African social media platforms. Read full article
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Covid-Organics: How the debate played out on social media
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IDIDTHAT Craft Awards August 2020 – IDIDTHAT.co
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Peak Of The Week: South Africa’s weekly trends report: 27 August – 3 September
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Coordinated attempt to manipulate xenophobia-centered conversations on SA social media’, CABC report shows
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
‘Twitter being used to fuel anger against foreign nationals’
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
Xenophobic content in SA tweeted 120 times more since one toxic account was founded
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
‘@uLerato_pillay: How the xenophobic network around #PutSouthAfricaFirst was born and then metastasised | Daily Maverick
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 …
Study blows lid on xenophobic Twitter network run by ‘uLerato Pillay’
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
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