The Reception of Covid-19 Denialist Propaganda in Tanzania

Figures & data

Figure 1. Survey results for the question, ‘[h]ow concerned are you that you or somebody in your household might contract Covid-19?’ Bars indicate a 95 per cent confidence interval. (Source: Ipsos survey for a representative sample of 1,511 (pre-election) and 1,506 individuals (post-election), based on age, gender, profession and geographical location, commissioned for the African Elections during the Covid-19 Pandemic project.)

Figure 2. Survey results for the question, ‘[h]ow well do you think your country is doing in fighting Covid-19?’ Bars indicate a 95 per cent confidence interval. (Source: Ipsos survey for a representative sample of 1,511 (pre-election) and 1,506 individuals (post-election) based on age, gender, profession and geographical location, commissioned for the African Elections during the Covid-19 Pandemic project.)

Table 1. The number of Covid-19-related tweets by selected users during specific time periods

	April–May 2020	September–October 2020	February–March 2021
@fatma_karume	187	9	25
@kigogo2014	445	13	191
@mangekimambi	4	80^†	16
@MariaSTsehai	146	15	200
@ThabitSenior	13	3	30

Source: Twitter.com. Search terms used: changamoto (za)* upumuaji, corona, Covid, Covid-19, kifua, korona, korona-19, mfumo (wa)* upumuaji, mafua, pandemic, UVIKO, UVIKO-19. (Please note that wa* and za* (‘of’ in English) have been dropped from the search because of the frequency of the word).

^† These Tweets almost exclusively relate to COVID-19 in the US, where the user is based