"Poorly educated populace" is a statement of fact, not a racial insinuation, as is seemingly being implied. South Africa has an awful education system, coming o

"Poorly educated populace" is a statement of fact, not a racial insinuation, as is seemingly being implied. South Africa has an awful education system, coming off a low base under apartheid. Its populace faces the problems of poor literacy (and associated critical thinking skills), as well as the general issues that the rest of the world faces with social media. Until cellphone network MTN killed its free data for Twitter offering, it was a hotbed of manipulation for precisely that reason. The difference between social media disinformation empowering white supremacists in the west, and misinformation in third world countries, is the risk of mob violence in the third world.