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 […]
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There is no space for passive indignation while South Africa is torn apart by misguided militancy. Read full article
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Over several years, one hashtag has become prominent on social media for rallying behind a campaign calling on government and the private sector to prioritise local jobs for South Africans over foreign nationals, while blaming immigrants for crime, among other social issues. Read full article
The Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change has been tracking conversations on social media around missing persons and #HumanTrafficking This article highlights what the CABC has discovered, and how a potential xenophobia network continues to peddle disinformation to sow divisive sentiment against African immigrants. Read it here.
#PutSouthAfricansFirst peddling malicious, divisive untruths about human trafficking Read More »
It’s all here on The Pulse – a podcast series from The Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change. In this 3 part episode, the CABC’s Adam Armstrong chats to Jean Le Roux, a Research Associate at the Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFR), about how false information on social media is organised and being weaponised.
Guptabots, Lerato Pillay and fake news Read More »
Anti-foreigner hashtags continue to swirl around local Twitter, together with misleading claims and links to fake news sites. Don’t be fooled, warns a UCT research unit. Read full article
#FakeNews and lies are amplified on social media Read More »
Real411 is affiliated to Media Monitoring Africa and enables the public to report disinformation, hate speech, incitement to violence and harassment of the media. This article outlines Real411’s findings and what constitutes hate speech. It’s important to report posts and tweets on social media that sow seeds of division and create resentment, anger and hatred
#putsouthafricansfirst: Spreading hate speech, inciting violence, breaking the law Read More »
The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated anti-foreigner sentiment in South Africa, especially in Gauteng, making the province ripe for another wave of xenophobic attacks, writes Steven Gordon. Read full article
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
UCT cyber analysts uncover campaign to promote xenophobia on Twitter-defenceWeb Read More »
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
Xenophobic #PutSouthAfricansFirst accounts ‘fuelling social discord’ online Read More »
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