#RACEBAITINGFORMONEY: EFF member from Makhado posed on Twitter as racist white woman to monetise racial tensions

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RACEBAITINGFORMONEY: EFF member from Makhado posed on Twitter as racist white woman to monetise racial tensions By Jean le Roux for DFRLab jean_leroux

profiles, both of which make his political affiliation clear, were also identified, and he used both accounts to share links to Search67.com in the last month.

Screengrabs from search67.com and Matumba’s Facebook page show that Matumba and the ‘author’ of the search67.com website have a history. the company details, the website registration, and AdSense information, and the sharing of links to these sites from his personal profileplace Matumba at the centre of these websites, and the ultimate beneficiary of any revenue they generate.

What this revealed was a network, mostly propagated by the Twitter account @amogelangpaswa, targeting prominent South African Twitter accounts by replying to their tweets with links to Matumba’s websites. The idea, it seems, is to draw on the large followings of these accounts as a means to amplify the reach of the websites. The @TracyZille account was not included in the above dataset.

Screengrabs from two of the accounts involved in the coordinated link sharing both contain links to websites associated with Matumba.

 

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