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
Xenophobia
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
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
24 hour trend 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 11 August 2020. Download Report (PDF)
‘@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
Study blows lid open on xenophobic twitter network run by ulerato pillay
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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Xenophobic tweets likely an ‘organised network’ linked to one influential account, study reveals
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
Interim report on Xenophobia on South African Social Media
Investigating the content, users, and tracking the intentional promotion of xenophobic conversation. Download Report
The week in social media | 3 – 6 August 2020
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 …
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