The fake news campaign that tried to divide South Africa

[Pluvious]

This is quite the phase human culture is lurching through, our dealing with the abuse of the power of technology and social media.

Mankind's propensity to relentlessly pursue power and money, corrupts every new technology we invent.

I despair our race will ever grow up.

In a move reminiscent of Russian operatives looking to disrupt the US during the presidential election and the UK during the Brexit referendum, the Guptas in 2016 decided to use the power of the internet, and social media in particular. What ensued was a scandal that became part of the increasingly global issue of fake news.

https://www.cnet.com/news/fake-news-campaign-divided-south-africa-twitter-facebook/