OP-ED: Disinformation in a time of Covid-19: Weekly Trends in South Africa

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As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc in our country, those who seek to cause confusion, chaos and public harm have powerful tools of mis- and disinformation to do just that. This week, as we continue to deal with the first anniversary of the first case in South Africa, we offer part two of our series of trends over the past year.

It is clear that #PutSouthAfricansFirst isn’t some organic trending issue but it has clearly been orchestrated.offers some great insight into orchestrated disinformation. It’s tricky to take a step back from your digital echo chamber, but with some clever technology, you can start to see what an organic, or normal spread of a hashtag looks like and what a coordinated one looks like.

Then you have another two users toward the top of the head where the hairline might recede, or at ‘five to one’ in clock terms. Your final two users seem to be around the ears on either side. “Karima Brown is a vile, depraved, malicious, disgusting, horrid, atrocious, execrable, abominable, venomous, detestable, nauseating, vitriolic, beastly, callous, diabolical and sadist excuse of a human beingKarima was not silent, and she was hard on those she took on. Being in the public eye, a level of trolling is expected, but she was subjected to so much more than trolling, yet still she carried on.

Men, evil or otherwise, are default originators or holders of power, like Bill Gates, who wants to inject us with microchips. Or how about this recent example,, where in the video of seven “so-called medical professionals” who spout utter nonsense, five are men and two are women — around 29% of the voices.

 

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