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[Klvan @Nat_cfc]

There calling it the Great clearout.

[Moussa 🇸🇾 @MoussaMUFC]

On dirait un scameur qui vend des formations

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

Send more ₿ears.

[55 @Mahmus___]

it was fun while it lasted 🕊️

[Eden Hazard @hazardeden10]

Football is back and so am I, but will they recognise me? 👀

BTW what is your discount @JohnTerry26 ? 😜

Let’s go @ChelseaFC 💙

[IRON ⚔️🩸 @6uff_]

Money na the highest cult. Once you guide na you be leader.

[ceciarmy @ceciarmy]

El jefe de la mafia canina

[osama ✰ @realwolog]

“if you don't do it another man will”

[Nnamdi Obi @nnamdiobiii]

STOP THIS NONSENSE NARRATIVE.

I speak for Africa when I say THIS IS MISLEADING, and it misrepresents where the real crime and AI abuse is happening in the world today.

If you genuinely want to talk about cybercrime, or AI being used for crime, Africa should not be anywhere near the center of that picture.

Start with AI itself. The top countries in AI adoption globally are the UAE, Singapore, China, India, and the USA. Even South Africa, sits around 21 to 23% adoption, while the UAE is above 70%. We are not even in the top 3 users of this technology, so how does Africa become the poster child for AI-driven crime.

Add the infrastructure gap. Large parts of Africa still doesn't have reliable banking rails, card penetration, or digital payment systems mature enough to run large-scale, automated fraud at the level a "55% AI-enabled" statistic implies. You need infrastructure to commit crime at scale. Africa is still building that infrastructure for legitimate commerce.

Now read the actual INTERPOL report closely, because it undercuts its own headline.

South Africa alone accounts for 92% of every ransomware detection and 70% of every BEC detection cited in the report. Add Nigeria and two countries explain almost the entire "African" story. The other 50-plus nations on this continent barely register. That is not a continental crisis. That is two data points wearing a continent's name.

The 55% AI figure everyone is running with is not a measurement. It comes from a survey asking police officers if they had "occasionally" or "frequently" seen AI show up in a case. That is a perception poll of 36 self-selected countries, not a forensic count of anything.

The report itself admits 89% of respondents said underreporting is a serious problem, with no formal reporting systems and no forensic capacity in many countries. So the data is being driven by whoever has the infrastructure to detect and report, which is exactly the two countries carrying the whole statistic.

The entire assessment is funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and built on data from Fortinet, Mastercard, Shadowserver, and other Western firms. Africa is the subject of this report. Africa did not write it.

Now look at scale. Total reported cybercrime losses across the whole continent in 2025: $484 million. INTERPOL's four biggest cross-border enforcement operations in Africa, spanning nearly 20 countries each, recovered a combined total of about $100 million.

Meanwhile the US alone reported $16.6 billion in cybercrime losses in 2024, and global ransomware payments hit $820 million in 2025 with a median payment of over $800,000 per incident, overwhelmingly from US, European, and Asian targets.

Africa's entire continent-wide total doesn't outpace what a single ransomware crew pulls from a handful of Western companies in one year.

Global cybercrime damage is projected at over $10 trillion for 2025 and 2026 combined. If cybercrime were a national economy, it would rank third in the world, behind only the US and China. Africa's entire reported total barely registers against that number.

So ask yourself why a 55% figure out of Africa's much smaller crime base gets a headline, while the actual centers of AI-driven fraud, the US, China, and the scam compounds of Southeast Asia generating close to $40 billion a year according to the UN, don't get the same "linked to over half" framing. That is not analysis. That is a choice of headline.

Then look at how INTERPOL illustrates its own stories. For Operation Sentinel, they used real, captioned photos of the actual arrests in Benin and Ghana. Actual African officers, actual African suspects, actual African raids. They had the real images and they used them.

But the article headlined "African authorities dismantle massive cybercrime and fraud networks, recover millions" runs a header image of handcuffed men whose appearance is not African.

If African authorities did the work, why illustrate Africa's own success story with a stock photo of people who aren't African? You don't reach for a generic photo when you have the real one, unless no one thought it mattered what image ran under Africa's name.

So ask who benefits from a headline that says "AI linked to more than half of cybercrime in Africa," built on a survey, funded by a foreign government office, driven by two countries' data, and illustrated with photos that don't even match the story.

International bodies need to stop using Africa as a scapegoat because it's convenient. It is easier to point at the continent with the least power to push back than to look honestly at where the money, the AI, and the crime actually are.

Every time this happens, it costs credibility. Not ours. Theirs.

STOP THIS.

[Sky Sports News @SkySportsNews]

BREAKING: Chelsea forward Mykhailo Mudryk has been cleared to return to play for the club following his doping ban 🚨

[your boy Armani 🫂 @armanifeante]

I can’t claim $78 dollars because two couples met each other at unilag many years ago, fell in love and gave birth to me in a country called Nigeria.

How is it my fault???

[Netflix @netflix]

MOURINHO, a three-part documentary, is coming to Netflix August 11.

With exclusive access to Mourinho himself plus interviews with Sir Alex Ferguson, John Terry, Iker Casillas, Zlatan Ibrahimović, Didier Drogba, Marcelo, Samuel Eto'o, Javier Zanetti, Frank Lampard, Petr Čech, and more of football's greatest names.

[Marvel Studios @MarvelStudios]

David Jonsson is your new Black Panther.

Black Panther 3, directed by Ryan Coogler, arrives in theaters December 15, 2028.

[European Central Bank @ecb]

Ten selected design proposals for the next series of euro banknotes have been unveiled.

Explore the proposals and tell us which ones you prefer.

Have your say https://t.co/VvcczFFxX3

[Lost signal💨💨💨💨 @fundzyD1]

Snapchat once you make screenshot

[MC @CrewsMat10]

Lamine Yamal comforting Lionel Messi after the final is easily the most wholesome moment you’ll see today. 🥹❤️