More investigations revealed that about $60,000 (R1 million) was invested in sponsoring xenophobic sentiments against Africans in South Africa – targeting chiefly Nigerians and South Africans. The social media is laden with comments about why South Africa (the government primarily) often chooses to sacrifice Africans living in their country on the altar of their own...
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
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
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 has revealed....
A network of faceless persons has has been exposed to be using Twitter ‘actions and sponsored reactions’ to amplify xenophobic sentiments against African foreigners in South Africa, targeting primarily Nigerians and Zimbabweans. Read the full article here
Guest: Stuart Jones, director at The Center for Analytics and behavioral change
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
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...
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
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...
