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South Africa

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South Africa has appeared in 61 articles since 2015-01. Coverage peaked in 2024Q2 with 5 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Twitter, Elon Musk, Facebook, Elon.

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61
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Coverage Timeline

2025-05-17
TechCrunch 30 related

After Grok's “white genocide in South Africa” X replies, xAI says “an unauthorized modification was made to Grok response bot's prompt” at 3:15 AM PST on May 14

We are regularly updating this repository with the system prompts that we use … Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : Grok “White Genocide” Controversy Leads xAI to Publish Internal System Prompts Mary P...

2025-05-16
TechCrunch 37 related

After Grok's “white genocide in South Africa” X replies, xAI says “an unauthorized modification was made to Grok response bot's prompt” at 3:15 AM PST on May 14

xAI blamed an “unauthorized modification” for a bug in its AI-powered Grok chatbot that caused Grok …

2024-12-25
Mediaite 2 related

Elon Musk is one of two paid subscribers of an X account that has implied South Africa was better off under apartheid, slammed “Black ruled” countries, and more

This is dialectics being weaponized to normalize an abomination.  —  www.mediaite.com/news/elon-mu... Domenico Lamberti / @mobiledom : who is surprised that the conservative, rich, white son of conser...

2024-09-17
Newsweek 21 related

Elon Musk posted “no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala 🤔” on X and deleted the false claim after it garnered 34M+ views, claiming it was a “joke”

which he made after the second apparent assassination attempt on former Pres. Trump — Musk, who owns the platform, responded to a user who asked, “Why they want to kill Donald Trump?” … Ben Herrera / ...

2023-11-03
404 Media 5 related

A look at Fusus, which links a town's security cameras into one central hub and analyzes the feeds using AI, as its system is deployed across 2,400 US locations

https://www.404media.co/...  “Ordinarily, these cameras and others like them might be disparate, their feeds only available to their respective owners: a business, a government building, a resident an...

2023-05-24
NBC News 38 related

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis plans to launch his presidential bid on Twitter Spaces on May 24, in a discussion with Elon Musk moderated by David Sacks

280 characters at a time Nancy Cook / Bloomberg : Ron DeSantis to Join Elon Musk on Twitter Wednesday to Announce 2024 Run Lawrence Richard / Fox News : Florida college student who shared location of ...

2023-01-15
MIT Technology Review 2 related

A look at Congo's Virunga National Park, which is running a Bitcoin mine that uses power from a hydro plant to pay park salaries and for infrastructure projects

Congo's Virunga — was broke. Then they built a hydropower plant in the park and started mining Bitcoin. This led to earnings of $150K a month and offset tourism income. https://www.technologyreview.co...

2022-12-15
Bloomberg

A look at the face off between the Khoisan, an ancient southern African tribe, and Amazon, which plans to build a regional HQ on sacred land in South Africa

Loni Prinsloo / Bloomberg : Tweets: @loniprinsloo1 , @quicktake , and @atbwebb Tweets: Loni Prinsloo / @loniprinsloo1 : Drone and video footage of the site where Amazon is building its new African he...

2021-09-24
Wall Street Journal

A look at the opposition by South African indigenous groups to Amazon's planned $350M Cape Town HQ, which some say is being built on sacred land

this time in Cape Town, South Africa, igniting protest from local groups who say site is sacred https://www.wsj.com/... https://twitter.com/... Corey Quinn / @quinnypig : Yeah, this image has a lot of...

2020-08-24
BuzzFeed News 1 related

Investigation: Chinese phone maker Transsion, which sells the ~$30 Tecno W2, preinstalled malware on some devices, leading to stolen data and money from users

When Mxolosi saw a Tecno W2 smartphone in a store in Johannesburg, South Africa, he was attracted to its looks and functionality.

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Quarterly Coverage

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TEXXR tracks 47 Techmeme articles mentioning South Africa, dating back to January 2016. The biggest stories include After Grok's “white genocide in South Africa” X replies, xAI says “an unauthorized... and After Grok's “white genocide in South Africa” X replies, xAI says “an unauthorized.... Frequently covered alongside Elon Musk, CFTC, Grok, Apple, and Bloomberg.

Key Moments

2024Q2consumer +25pts; research -100pts; funding -100pts
2024Q4consumer -25pts; funding +50pts; competition -25pts
2025Q2consumer +33pts; funding -50pts; regulation -50pts

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