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4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Crude fakes in Uganda A BBC investigation has uncovered a network of fake social media accounts seemingly working together to promote the Ugandan government and the East African Crude Oil Pipeline. Online, an information battle appears to be going on – one being waged by hundreds of social media accounts set on pushing narratives in line with those of the Ugandan government. As part of a coordinated campaign, they have been artificially inflating support for EACOP online and viciously targeting those that oppose the project – both at home and abroad. But who is behind these accounts? And how influential have they become?
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Una Chaplin, and I'm the host of a new podcast called Hollywood Exiles. |
| 0:06.0 | It tells the story of how my grandfather, Charlie Chaplin, and many others, were caught up in a campaign to root out communism in Hollywood. |
| 0:15.8 | Hollywood Exiles from CBC Podcasts and the BBC World Service. |
| 0:20.6 | Find it wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:23.0 | It's October 2017. |
| 0:30.0 | At a luxury resort in the outskirts of the Ugandan capital, Kampala, an international conference is taking place. |
| 0:40.0 | The room is packed, top experts in infectious diseases sitting side by side with |
| 0:48.0 | health ministers from around the world. And Uganda's long-serving |
| 0:52.4 | president, Joyoery Museveni, is there to welcome them. |
| 0:57.0 | It is now my honor to declare this fourth annual |
| 1:00.0 | Ohio meeting on the Global Health Security Agenda officially opened. |
| 1:05.2 | I thank you all. |
| 1:07.6 | It's not every day you get to see the Ugandan President in the flesh, so one of the attendees, a long dark-haired woman wearing glasses |
| 1:16.3 | approaches him for a selfie. President Museveni is happy to oblige. |
| 1:21.0 | Photographers are there too, |
| 1:23.7 | and they capture the moment this young, broad-smiling woman |
| 1:27.9 | raises her phone for a selfie with a president. |
| 1:32.3 | She doesn't know it yet but that picture will be used to create a fake |
| 1:37.8 | online persona. The likable face of a social media account bent on supporting the long-serving Ugandan president. |
| 1:48.0 | He will be remembered as a democratic leader. |
| 1:51.0 | Bent on promoting a controversial multi-billion dollar pipeline project. |
| 1:56.8 | Oil drilling is on. |
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