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How X's Algorithm and Its Payouts Are Fuelling Trolling in South Africa Every angry reply on X is ad inventory, and someone is cashing in on South Africa's rage. Open the app and you leave with an argument you never asked for. That's by design. Payouts are tied to ads served in reply threads, Premium accounts carry the most weight, and the algorithm can't tell a fan from someone furious. Local creators earn roughly R90 to R180 per million impressions, so provoking people becomes the cheapest route to money. From there we follow the trail outward: troll networks and sock puppets, Bell Pottinger's £100,000-a-month campaign for the Guptas, governments laundering their reputations through influencers and sport, and the 23 verified xenophobic incidents Xenowatch recorded in six months. All of it runs into South Africa's 2026 Local Government Elections, across 23,292 voting stations. Then there's the 30-second check anyone can run on a suspicious account, before the next post has you reaching for the quote-tweet button. Sources: Forbes; The Guardian (Andrew Cave); Africa Check; Xenowatch (Wits ACMS); Loren Landau; Electoral Commission of South Africa (Mosotho Moepya); SANEF; Sizwe Dlamini (Sunday Independent); Nomalanga Mashinini (Wits).