By Own Correspondent- Zimbabweans have been urged to be wary of the social media which is being used by the country’s detractors to influence and shape opinion.

Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa said citizens should not allow social media to shape their opinion of the country since agents of regime change such as MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa and his allies were using it to post subversive statement aimed at unseating the elected Government.

She said:

“There is need to monitor the use of social media at all levels since it is being abused by the country’s detractors to influence opinion.”

She narrated how some mischievous individuals have gone to the extent of creating fake twitter accounts of eminent persons such as the president of the chief’s council Chief Fortune Charumbira and Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans’ leader and her husband Cde Christopher Mutsvangwa and posting tweets denouncing the President, party and Government.

“This infiltration is to cause division among top Government officials,” she said.-StateMedia