Gupta Fake News Empire

South Africa The Guptas, Bell Pottinger and the fake news propaganda machine

INVESTIGATION: UK PR firm Bell Pottinger’s role in the construction of the Gupta family’s propaganda empire was part of ...

South Africa How the Guptas' propaganda war machine was built

The Guptas' disinformation campaign used a range of media to carry their propaganda

South Africa How the Gupta campaign weaponised social media

The Gupta campaign used social media as a weapon to target key opponents and replicated methods used elsewhere in the ...

South Africa How to hire a Twitter army like the Guptas did

The Gupta family’s propaganda campaign inaugurated South Africa into the epicentre of the era of fake news

South Africa Meet the real-life commanders of the Guptas' fake news army

How fake messages from the black-ops world of an automated Twitter army spilled over into reality

South Africa ANALYSIS | So, did the fake news campaign work?

Consider the count: two finance ministers down – or did it fail miserably?