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    25 August 2022

    Insight Report

    “Jamie Roz”: real or fake?

    This DRAFT report looks at mentions of the byline Jamie Roz in South African digital media (using
    Code for Africa’s CivicSignal MediaCloud machine learning platform), as well as social media traces
    on Facebook (using Crowdtangle) and Twitter (using Meltwater). We attempted to ascertain whether
    Jamie Roz was a real person, or an alias used to legitimise propaganda and misinformation from
    Sekunjalo and Independent Media, masquerading as investigative journalism.

    Digital News Media

    MediaCloud

    The first mention of the byline “Jamie Roz” picked up on Code for Africa’s MediaCloud monitoring
    platform was on May 15, 2022, with a story written in response to banks starting to cut ties with Iqbal
    Survè’s Sekunjalo Group, and entitled “History in the making: Sekunjalo Group takes a stand against
    Mafia banks.” Prior to that date, we could find no stories attributed to Jamie Roz in South African
    digital news media.

    Using CivicSignal MediaCloud we identified a total of 6 stories by Jamie Roz, written between May
    15 and August 8. These 6 stories were published multiple times on different Independent Media
    platforms, for a total of 75 instances. (Note: this indicates that the individual 6 stories were also
    published under the rubric of the different media titles.)

    A word cloud of topics covered in “Jamie Roz” stories shows that his main concerns are banks
    refusing to do business with any company tied to Survè and Sekunjalo Investment Holding, and to
    attack the Daily Maverick.

    Top words from stories associated with Jamie Roz 01/01/22 - 24/08/22. Source: CivicSignal MediaCloud

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    See Link to urls of stories

    Attention over time of stories authored by Jamie Roz 01/01/22 - 24/08/22 Source: CivicSignal MediaCloud

    Cite this case study as: Code for Africa (CfA), August 25, 2022. www.disinfo.africa

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    Top sample stories by Jamie Roz 01/01/22 - 24/08/22. Source: CivicSignal MediaCloud

    Cite this case study as: Code for Africa (CfA), August 25, 2022. www.disinfo.africa

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    Top names from the stories associated with Jamie Roz 01/01/22 - 24/08/22. Source: CivicSignal
    MediaCloud

    Social Media Footprint

    Using CrowdTangle, we searched for the key term “Jamie Roz” on Facebook covering the period
    between January 1 2020 and August 25 2022. We did not observe any social media digital footprint
    related to Jamie Roz.

    Cite this case study as: Code for Africa (CfA), August 25, 2022. www.disinfo.africa

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    Snapshot of CrowdTangle results of posts mentioning “Jamie Roz” between Jan 1 2020 & Aug 25 2022 (source:
    CrowdTangle/CfA)

    Using Meltwater, we identified 7 tweets which mentioned the keyword “Jamie Roz” for the period
    between August 26 2021 and August 25 2022. The first tweet that mentioned “Jamie Roz” was
    observed on February 7 2022. The second tweet originated from @GeorgeSA60 questioning who
    “Jamie Roz” was. However, no evidence of the existence of a “Jamie Roz” account was observed.

    Timeline of all tweets mentioning “Jamie Roz” since August 26 2021 to August 25 2022 (source: Meltwater/CfA)

    Extracts of the first two (left, right) tweets observed mentioning “Jamie Roz” (source: Meltwater/CfA)

    Cite this case study as: Code for Africa (CfA), August 25, 2022. www.disinfo.africa

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    Additional visualisations

    For the period between January 1 2020 and August 25 2022, we identified IOL as the main publisher
    of 69 “Jamie Roz” articles, except for 6 mentions on news aggregators.

    Cite this case study as: Code for Africa (CfA), August 25, 2022. www.disinfo.africa

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    This draft report was co-written by CfA’s iLAB and CivicSignal

    Cite this case study as: Code for Africa (CfA), August 25, 2022. www.disinfo.africa

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