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Alex Vines, the director of the Africa Programme at Chatham House think tank, says the influencers are attempting to sow doubt about existing political leadership by spreading or amplifying coup rumours, to erode public confidence in the current institutions.

As Dr. Alice Julier, director of food studies at Chatham University, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, advertisers “did an unbelievable job of convincing people these were wonderful new inventions, and also necessary in making lives convenient. Trying it meant you were trying something new.”

For their services, the Wagner Group and now Africa Corps are often paid directly in gold or in mining concessions, according to Alex Vines of the London-based Chatham House think-tank.

"Nobody wants to be called a bad ally for failing to meet the target," Jamie Shea, a former Nato official now working for the Chatham House think tank told BBC Verify.

"Khamenei's next moves will be the most consequential not just for his own survival but for how he will do down in history, " says Sanam Vakil, Director of the Middle East and North Africa programme at think tank, Chatham House.