Unfortunately, Bell Pottinger’s departure has not deterred the Gupta-Zuma Twitter machine. After the excellent smackdown of the previous approach featured in the Daily Maverick (https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2016-11-10-paid-twitter-manufacturing-dissent-helping-guptas/#.WTZjl9hf0aI), lessons were learnt, and this week, the second, more refined approach was launched. This is what I found by looking at the newly created fake accounts. 

Lessons from the previous Twitter campaign have been learnt and the new approach seems to be more sophisticated, but certainly not impossible to detect.

The new approach seems to deviate from the old approach to leave a digital retweet footprint and retweets from supporting fake accounts are more scrambled, so that patterns are less easy to detect.

I hope that a new takedown is in the offing. This is certainly required, as the new approach is doubling down, particularly on its aggressive anti-white sentiments.