Shop Support DM Logo

Investigations

Scorpio Our burning planet amabhungane Declassified UK

News & Analysis

Business Maverick Maverick Citizen Sport Newsdeck Maverick News Nelson Mandela Bay Johannesburg

Features

Opinionistas Maverick Life TGIFood Blog Podcasts Webinars Zapiro Cartoons Op-eds

Newspaper

E-edition Subscribe Delivery Queries

DM is much better if you are signed in...

Enter your email below and we will send you a mail with a link or one-time pin to login

Sign in with password
Sign in with OAuth

Get Support DM Shop Support DM

Defend Truth

Jean le Roux for DFRLab

Jean le Roux is a research associate, southern Africa, with the Digital Forensic Research Lab and is based in South Africa.

Email: [email protected]

Paid influencers and sock puppets drove social media campaign targeting SA banks that cut ties with Iqbal Survé's Sekunjalo

Business Maverick, South Africa

Paid influencers and sock puppets drove social media campaign targeting SA banks that cut ties with Iqbal Survé's Sekunjalo

by: Jean le Roux for DFRLab

Spotting disinformation in the wild: What’s the harm in a hashtag?

South Africa

Spotting disinformation in the wild: What’s the harm in a hashtag?

by: Jean le Roux for DFRLab

Xenophobic Twitter campaigns orchestrated by a former South African soldier

South Africa

Xenophobic Twitter campaigns orchestrated by a former South African soldier

by: Jean le Roux for DFRLab

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

South Africa

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

by: Jean le Roux for DFRLab

Wild Covid-19 rumours peddled by fringe political party

South Africa, COVID-19

Wild Covid-19 rumours peddled by fringe political party

by: Jean le Roux for DFRLab

Digital scammers latch on to Covid-19 to harvest personal data in South Africa

Business Maverick, South Africa, COVID-19

Digital scammers latch on to Covid-19 to harvest personal data in South Africa

by: Jean le Roux for DFRLab

Debug: hasMoreArticles=false, articles.length=6