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WORLDVIEW: Paid twitter has it wrong – I’m not for Regime change.
Among the propaganda tactics is “paid twitter” – a team of low-life who run dozens of Twitter accounts ascribed to fictitious people and created with the sole intention of promoting the client’s agenda.
By Alec Hogg
There's a public relations consultancy in London called Bell Pottinger known to take on any client, no matter how disreputable, provided the money is right. The firm markets itself as a specialist in "crisis" communication. Others, including former client Johann Rupert, use rather different descriptions.
Bell Pottinger's highest profile South African client is the Gupta family, who pay a retainer reputably runs into millions of pounds a year. The BP-driven dark arts are mostly a rehash of tools long used internationally, thus easily discredited in most parts of the world. But as this kind of propaganda is new to SA, it ropes a lot of dopes.
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