Why “pan” agents pushed rumors

In May, Mafalda Marchio woke up to the messages of friends living abroad, in Abidjan, asking if the largest city on the coast of Ivory.

Social media was full of messages claimed when they were not blows. On the street platforms Dramatic Soldiers Metraje, ai reports created and presented by millions of perspectives on YouTube.

“I was very worried, really worried, I thought something happened,” the management consultant said to BBC.

But the claims shared on May 19 were false.

In West Africa, there are the newest examples of rumors that are spreading, in recent years to increase the strains in a region with several military receivers.

Côte d’Ivoire, one of the few people talking to France is closely linked to the west, having the presidential elections this year.

Experts believe that this type of misinformation can be increasingly with narratives that attack the election process.

That is, Alasane Ouattarra Ivorian president, seeking the fourth period, is seen as Western pro-western, and his critics accuse the alignment with countries that operate continents.

Minister of Côte d’Ivoire Amadou Coulibaly said to BBC’s “countries around” the origin of false information, but they did not specify more.

The rumor seems to have grown from an incident with Burkina Faso and has been the growing wave of self-style pan-afrocista.

They exclude links to the west, often represent Russian support and create continent interviews – Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa arrive.

Effective also promote images such as the military Ibrahim Traoré, who caught power in a coup in 2022.

Traoré has portrayed it as a podel and has a lot of support for young people in the entire continent as it sees as a leader standing in the west.

Alex Vines, director of the African program in Chatham House believes that the tanks are trying to sow doubts about existing political leadership, expanding the rumors of State couples to increase public confidence in current institutions.

“It is to find a braver market for readers who want to see more positive African leaders, bringing development and peace and prosperity,” BBC said.

While analysts suggest Ivory coastal rumors have similar characteristics of a Russian protection campaign, there is no evidence of the involvement of Russia.

The country has been linked to operations that speak French African countries in the past. According to African Center of the US Department of Defense for Strategic Studies The misinformation networks connected to the Russian Wagner team tried to turn on the rumors of a niger blow in 2023.

Burkinabé authorities have no evidence in the rumors of coups on the coast of Burkinabé coast, but people based people have amplified claims.

Relationship between Burkina Faso and Ivol coast was created more than a year ago, traoré accused his neighbor by tolerating militant groups in its territory and the solvents who were insulting “deviants” and his junta.

Then in April, his security minister Volved coast-based plotters In order to overcome traoré – the complaint was amplified in the network.

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He published a video of French and the Mooré, in a local language, the soldiers on the Illi coast should be rising to hit the state and encourage people to share their message.

An hour later, he published the image of the President Allaskane Ouattara, a speedy fire image. With the caption indicating that the blow was declaring. Clip has had the most recent stresses in India-Pakistan on Kashmir.

The next day, the users of social media outside West Africa entered the misinformation and promoted English speakers in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa, encouraging instructions on other social networks.

When he lost his direct BBC Sawadogo, he released his direct videos from where he released his information, but he replied “to God to Alassane (Ouattara).

He took another rumor, publishing in English, was born in Turkish Mehmet Vefa Dag, a small political institution of South Africa.

He published it several times in different platforms that he called the “internal coup”.

In fact, Dag, it has been criticized in the past for offensive and false comments against the people against Jewish and LGBTQ + people, it was already called X 11 on May 11th.

When he contacted BBC on June 3, it was clear that the State blow was insistent.

“We are very proud to remove this state from Ouattara. He sold his imperialist souls and wanted to destroy Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger,” he said.

“Pan-afrocists will never give them a chance. We are going to fight for our people. This is our continent.”

The most popular YouTube videos about the alleged coastal coastal cliffs were to be seen in millions of times, the channels offered by Pan-Afroxism or discussion of Burkina Faso boss.

According to Effiong Udo, it is an associate professor at Uyo University in Nigeria, “Opportunist agents”. Military governments are romantizing under government-aforacatism – the movement to promote unity and release on the continent – to gain reputation and earn money and earn money.

But BBC said that this kind of content was attractive to the young people disillusioned with politics, adding: “I can understand their excess.”

Kenyan Academic Kanyinga admits that social media content eats the desire to change Africa that they may not change, not inadequate resources and try to lift people from poverty.

“People trying to give the traine on Burkina Faso’s TAINE are not in Burkina Faso, or a coup on the coast of the ivory coast.

Certainly Traoré has many admirers and is a story for the fact that for the creators of the contents. It is anything related to him and his political worldviews do very well online.

Kenyan Youtuy Otieno produces content about the new trend, when he won this winner of this year ago, he shot his best friend when he reported the false claim.

“He really played,” said BBC – and since then, his content has been almost all of the Burkinabé leader.

He repeated information without information about May and his video and collected more than 200,000 videos. Then he apologized and said that he was wrong.

He admits that he does not earn money from some of his contents, but some people who identify all his messages and identify it as a “Pan-African agent” do not maintain its motivation.

“There are people using disinformation and disinformation in space to grow their scope and commit to farming,” he said.

There is a real interest in this content and the comments below fake video videos were often positive, reflecting hunger for change during the continent.

Removing the Government of the Côte d’Ivarian anxiety for those who live in crosses, and it helps all increase tensions to vote in October of West Africa in October.

Additional news of BBC’s Nicolas Négoce