In the first half of 2022, the extent of xenophobic content related to South Africa on social media increased. The most prominent hashtag in the conversation, #OperationDudula, is characterized by a negative sentiment directed toward foreigners. It appears that this may be a coordinated influence operation. On Nimmo’s breakout scale for measuring the impact of …
Between 7 and 8 April 2022, The Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change was alerted to an online narrative that surfaced following the death of a Zimbabwean man named Elvis Nyathi in Diepsloot on 6 April 2022. News of Nyathi’s death was revealed as tensions continue to build about the work of an organisation called …
This is a summary of the trending, highest impact, and most active themes and their narratives related to social cohesion and division in South African public-domain social media conversations on 19 August 2020. Download Report (PDF) Feeding racism? Many Twitter users reflected on the impact of language in shaping society yesterday. Earlier in the week …
Every day we observe, dissect and analyse the news and information driving the conversations around the week’s most topical issues on social media. These are the highlights you should know about. Remember we quote tweets verbatim so any grammar or spelling mistakes are as they appear in the tweet. From Black Like Me to a …
Investigating the content, users, and tracking the intentional promotion of xenophobic conversation. Download Report
This is a summary of the trending, highest impact, and most active themes and their narratives related to social cohesion and division in South African public-domain social media conversations on 13 August 2020. Download Report (PDF) Serial killer on the loose News that a suspected serial killer was active on the South Coast of KwaZulu-Natal …
Every day we observe, dissect and analyse the news and information driving the conversations around the week’s most topical issues on social media. These are the highlights you should know about. Remember we quote tweets verbatim so any grammar or spelling mistakes are as they appear in the tweet. Zimbabwean Crisis Drivers and Suggested Solutions …
This is a summary of the trending, highest impact, and most active themes and their narratives related to social cohesion and division in South African public-domain social media conversations on 5 August 2020. The #zimbabweanlivesmatter movement has taken South African Twitter by storm, overshadowing many of the issues that have prevailed on social media over …
This is a summary of the trending, highest impact, and most active themes and their narratives related to social cohesion and division in South African public-domain social media conversations on 4 August 2020. The uproar over events in Zimbabwe continued to drive high volume conversation on South Africa social media yesterday. Twitter users took their …
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