Chris Roper
@ChrisRoper
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Deputy CEO at @Code4Africa, Director: @AfricanCIR. Former Ed-in-Chief: Mail & Guardian and 24. com. Knight Fellow at ICFJ 2015-2019. #CTCity
Cape Town, RSA
Joined May 2008
💼 What's behind the rise of "Russian Houses" in Africa? Officially, they promote education, culture and humanitarian projects. In practice, they serve as instruments for expanding Russia’s influence abroad and polishing its image. Read the full story: https://t.co/KqcHX4YpyP
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Seen any standout news #creators lately? 🌍 @ICFJ+ and ProjectC are spotlighting impactful independent creator-journalists who are reshaping the news landscape. Help us find them and open doors for growth and collaboration. Nominate your faves: https://t.co/MsGAxyQ5nE
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Yet another way that AI is making our life worse. I assume this endless loop is Cloudflare trying to work out if I’m an AI scraper. Another story I’ll never read. Not the website’s fault. Ironically, Grok asks me if I want to turn this into a video. No, you’ve done your bit.
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This is an old article of ours from last year, but stumbled across it again doing research. Still hugely relevant. "Russia vs the West and how it plays out in the Global South."
disinfo.africa
A new NATO report exposes Kremlin’s manipulation of sociopolitical fault lines, urging Western countries to counter pro-Russian narratives
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"Dissatisfaction with democracy is evident, with just 38% expressing satisfaction, the lowest since 2014. The Africa Youth Survey revealed that only 39% of respondents believe Africans should emulate ‘Western democracy’."
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"In 24 of 30 African countries, approval of authoritarian rule has risen, reflecting a growing disillusionment with democratic processes. A significant proportion of Africans (53%) would consider a military government if elected officials were perceived to abuse their power."
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“The genius of Malema: Money. Power. Patronage. is to contrast Malema’s self-avowed status as a man of and for the people with impeccably researched, meticulous evidence of his venality.” Read Micah Reddy and @PaulivW ‘s excellent new book.
@ChrisRoper: Our beleaguered, very special investigators: " The epigraph to Micah Reddy and Pauli van Wyk’s excellent book about #JuliusMalema’s climb from zero to hero, and his rapid descent from hero to hypocrite, is from the man himself." Read more: https://t.co/cq7D4F3UtJ
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Why indeed. But also - progress and profits are synonymous sometimes.
"Many of us have been so caught up in the exciting rush of tech hype, that perhaps we’ve neglected to pause and ask some basic questions. Like, why do we need self-driving cars?" Read more by @ChrisRoper here: https://t.co/eAKzRfp10w
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Today | CfA's CEO & ICFJ+ co-founder @justinarenstein joins the 'Navigating the Age of Doubt' opening panel at #iMEdDIJF25. How can journalism cut through the noise, rebuild trust + restore relevance in an era of misinformation and news avoidance? ⏰Sept 25, 6:15 p.m. EET
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The arc of the moral universe…the man known as Soldier X, accused of murdering Agnes Wanjiru has his identity revealed:
On the night of March 31st 2012, a local hotel in Nanyuki was buzzing. Soldiers from Britain's Duke of Lancaster's regiment were out on the town, and so was 21-year-old Agnes Wanjiru. She was last seen in the company of a soldier from that regiment. 3 months later, her body was
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LIVE | @ChrisRoper gets real about the use and impact of AI at #DigitalMediaAfrica2025. AI has already taken over some of the newsroom's routine tasks, but for journalists, the threat goes deeper.
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REVEALED | #JuliusMalema’s R21.6m property portfolio and how he built his fiefdom All in the new, revealing book “Malema: Money. Power. Patronage” in bookstores now https://t.co/uGBQtF3aYI
news24.com
EFF leader Julius Malema owns a property portfolio with an acquisition value of R21.6 million. The real expense, however, hides in its ostentatious renovations, which appear to push the value of his...
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"Humans are just a faith-based species. We’ve always believed false things, why would we expect anything to have changed?" Read 'It’s about more than facts' by @ChrisRoper, here: https://t.co/RFlgTa8OkA
financialmail.businessday.co.za
Examples from the Catholic Church illustrate the problems faced by fact-checkers and lead to the question: how can people believe all this?
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PRC influence is surging across sub-Saharan Africa, per #ChinaIndex2024: 📈Nigeria: 4th globally 📈Zimbabwe: 6th 📉South Africa: 10th 📈Gambia: +62 in academia domain 💰 Massive PRC investment in energy, transport, digital infrastructure is driving the shift.
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‘Very bad things are happening in South Africa’
Walmart is officially coming to SA
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Frightening, you say.
PLEASE READ THIS THOUGHT-PROVOKING, THOUGHTFUL AND FRIGHTENING PIECE BY @ChrisRoper CHRIS ROPER: How AI is remaking news at lightspeed https://t.co/dNakQKllfc via @BusinessLiveSA
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"Last year, three authors filed a class-action lawsuit in #California alleging that #Anthropic, one of the big four AI labs, trained its #AI model using pirated copies of their books." Read more by @ChrisRoper here: https://t.co/yuPq85oxFC
financialmail.businessday.co.za
First it became clear that thanks to the digital revolution, print journalism was heading for the museum — now AI is on the verge of sending news websites to the same place
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China has implemented mandatory AI education across all primary and secondary schools, affecting over 200 million students, including 6 years old. We’re always bragging about how young the African continent is. Time to take advantage of that in countries that can.
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2. A News Editor to lead our data journalism newsdesk within the iLAB (Investigative Lab), working alongside forensic analysts and other OSINT specialists. Help to expose corrupt politicians, organised crime, and corporate wrongdoing. https://t.co/OUtDyOsZI5
opportunities.codeforafrica.org
Come drive high-impact data journalism at the cutting edge of African investigative reporting. Code for Africa (CfA) is seeking a veteran News Editor to lead our data journalism newsdesk within the...
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We're hiring, but hopefully also inspiring. These are jobs for people who care. 1. Take the lead on a 3 to 4-year, multimillion-dollar programme in Africa and the Middle East focused on combating technology-facilitated gender-based violence (tfGBV) https://t.co/Ohf2SX2L7M
opportunities.codeforafrica.org
Do you want to spearhead an ambitious, multi-country initiative to combat technology-facilitated Gender-Based Violence across Africa and the Middle East? The Alliance led by Code for Africa (CfA)...
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