Xenophobia Media

There is a coordinated attempt to manipulate conversations with a xenophobic tone on South African social media platforms, analysts from the Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change (CABC) at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business (UCT GSB) have found. Key narratives around xenophobia are being curated and amplified by a dedicated network …

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A surge in xenophobic rhetoric on Twitter has been observed, and the #PutSouthAfricansFirst tag is believed to be at the centre of it. Read full article

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 …

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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