2024-03-04
18 分钟It's October 2017.
At a luxury resort in the outskirts of the Ugandan capital Kampala.
An international conference is taking place.
The room is packed.
Top experts in infectious diseases sitting side by side with health ministers from around the world.
And Uganda's long serving president Yoweri Museveni is there to welcome them.
It is now my honor to declare this fourth annual high level meeting on global health security agenda officially opened.
I thank you all.
It's not every day you get to see the Ugandan president in the flesh.
So one of the attendees, a long dark haired woman wearing glasses, approaches him for a selfie.
President Museveni is happy to oblige.
Photographers are there too, and they capture the moment.
This young broad, smiling woman raises her phone for a selfie with the president.
She doesn't know it yet, but that picture will be used to create a fake online Persona.
The likeable face of a social media account bent on supporting the long serving Ugandan president.
He will be remembered as a democratic leader bent on promoting a controversial multi billion dollar pipeline project.
Oil drilling is on bent on pushing back against critics at home and abroad.
You will die.
This is BBC trending, where this season we're investigating how power is being used and misused on social media.
In this episode we head to Ugand to expose a sprawling network of fake social media accounts.