Jean le Roux
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Jean le Roux
@jeanleroux.bsky.social
Senior Investigator, Graphika.

Cape Town, South Africa.
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At #Disinfo2025 learning that the Kremlin isn’t deconflicting its influence ops—so now it’s just Telegram bots arguing with each other in circles 🤣.

Would love to see their OpenAI bill 👀
Great investigation by @jeanleroux.bsky.social and @learonzaud.bsky.social with some great #osint techniques!
October 15, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Graphika's @jeanleroux.bsky.social recently shared his insights on information integrity and elections at South African Human Rights Commission's Summit on Disinformation.

Thank you to event organizers for featuring us alongside experts from @ciia-africa.bsky.social and @mediamatterza.bsky.social.
July 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Ho ho ho ho...ld up a second, and wait before you click. 🎄🎅💰

Working with industry partners at Meta, we picked apart a few festive frauds in the hopes of making our online spaces a little bit safer.

Report available in the link below:
Working with industry partners at Meta, Graphika is joining a campaign to raise public awareness about online scams during the holidays.

Our new report “Holiday Hoaxes Unwrapped” details scams targeting shoppers and internet users during the holiday season.
Holiday Hoaxes Unwrapped: Fake Trees, Freebies, & Shopping Sprees
Scammers Orchestrate Cross-Internet Campaigns to Deceive and Defraud Holiday Shoppers of their Money and Personal Information
graphika.com
December 10, 2024 at 11:23 AM
A must read from Forbidden Stories, confirming what many African IO researchers could only see the silhouette of:

forbiddenstories.org/in-the-centr...
In the Central African Republic, a former propagandist lifts the veil on the inner workings of Russian disinformation
Central African journalist Ephrem Yalike offers evidence revealing, for the first time, the relentless influence exerted in his country by Russia.
forbiddenstories.org
November 21, 2024 at 6:10 AM
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im on every app. im in your city, in your neighborhood. the sales associate who handed you a large when you asked for a medium? that was me. i am now behind you.
November 20, 2024 at 7:00 AM
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Here come the fake impersonator accounts. A trust and safety challenge will be dealing with making lists of politicians, figuring out what accounts are harmful impersonators versus satire, etc.
November 20, 2024 at 4:39 PM
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Checked in on how the lawsuit against Minnesota for its law banning certain "deep fake" content around elections was going and the plaintiff's counsel is alleging that an expert witness offered by the state cited an academic article that doesn't exist and that the citation may be an AI hallucination
November 20, 2024 at 7:31 PM