A network of inauthentic accounts is twisting policy for its misinformation machine. read full article
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The Citizen: The RET Twitter campaign’s echoes of Bell Pottinger | The Citizen
CABC found 51 ‘suspicious’ accounts perpetuating RET narratives, and put them through their internal analysing and visualisation tools. Read full article
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The role of automated bot accounts which use artificial intelligence to spread disinformation is increasing dramatically.
As the global fight against Covid-19 intensifies, bot accounts continue to spread countless conspiracy theories about the virus – putting people’s lives on the line by destroying trust in vaccines. Find out how to spot and stop these accounts here >
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24 Hour Trend Report | 25 August 2020
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 24 August 2020. Download full report
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24 Hour Trend Report | 18 August 2020
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 17 August 2020. While conversations about black identity and the unequal treatment of black people trended at number one under the top topics by volume...
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24 Hour Trend Report | 5 August 2020
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...