Empowering citizens in the digital age.

The CABC is a non-profit company dedicated to fostering change
through building social cohesion in online communities.

Our Projects

Working For Democracy.

Building Tolerance, Active Citizenry, Informed Consumption Of Media And Social Media And Exposing Attempts To Artificially Manipulate Public Opinion.

Our projects

Our work spans civil and social justice issues as well as environmental issues of concern. View the range of projects we’ve worked on, below.

Working for Democracy

Countering Xenophobia

Just Energy Transition

Countering Misogyny

Public Health

Our Projects

Making impact through content

Making impact through the media

The work we do has made it into the media – from online news platforms to tv and radio interviews,
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‘Make South Africa Great Again’ — Tracking the ‘movement’ online

Free expression? Meta’s decision to scrap fact-checkers poses risks

Legal Ethics, Education and AI: Where do we generate the line?

Pan-African News Wire| South Africa: Who’s Behind 16 Days of Activism Online?

Pan-African News Wire

The South African: Are there snippets of the disinformation playbook in SA?

The South African

FRIDAY BRIEFING | Posioned food crisis: Is closing spaza shops the answer? | News24

News24

Smile 90.4FM: Digital Activism and Disinformation

Daily Maverick: Roman Cabanac punted nuclear deal on Rosatom freebie to Russia

Daily Maverick: What South Africans need from political leaders – Courage and commitment to peace

iono.fm: Democratic participation, civic education and the GNU

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#JusticeForCwecwe Social Media Analytics Fact Sheet

admin112 / May 6, 2025

This factsheet concerns conversation surrounding the alleged rape of a 7 year old minor child and analysed social media data…

Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence on Social Media

admin112 / April 3, 2025

This report examines online conversation about tfgbv in South Africa on X (formerly Twitter). Focus areas include the non-consensual sharing…

‘Make South Africa Great Again’ — Tracking the ‘movement’ online

admin112 / February 27, 2025

Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change Racial tensions on social media are flaring up, as minority groups call on US…

Factsheet: Online conversations about land reform and expropriation in South Africa

admin112 / February 18, 2025

This factsheet provides a summary of the CABC’s analysis of the online conversation about land expropriation in South Africa on…

Online conversation about the Expropriation Act

admin112 / February 14, 2025

This report unpacks the online conversation about land expropriation in South Africa on X (formerly twitter) and TikTok. Focus areas…

Free expression? Meta’s decision to scrap fact-checkers poses risks

admin112 / February 7, 2025

Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change Meta’s decision to remove fact-checkers from its platforms and replace them with user-generated community…

Legal Ethics, Education and AI: Where do we generate the line?

admin112 / February 7, 2025

Kyle Janse On the 30th of November 2022, a free-to-use generative artificial intelligence chatbot, namely ChatGPT, was launched and made…

Pan-African News Wire| South Africa: Who’s Behind 16 Days of Activism Online?

admin112 / January 28, 2025

The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is an annual international campaign that kicks off on 25 November, the…

Pan-African News Wire

The South African: Are there snippets of the disinformation playbook in SA?

admin112 / January 28, 2025

Online disinformation thrives on divisive issues like unemployment, inequality and crime in South Africa. In this article, researcher Molebogeng Mokoka…

The South African

Moneyweb: TikTok, Meta brace for Australian social media ban fallout

admin112 / January 28, 2025

Lurking behind the debate, and driving the change, are the dark corners of social media that continue to extract a…

Moneyweb

FRIDAY BRIEFING | Posioned food crisis: Is closing spaza shops the answer? | News24

admin112 / January 28, 2025

The blame is being laid on spaza shops for children's deaths when there is no political will to deal with…

News24

Gender Norms, Smile FM 25/11 With Kyle Janse

admin112 / January 28, 2025

The Center for Analytics and Behavioral Change has released its latest report, Social Norms about Gender on South African Twitter.

Smile FM

HeCareZa Annual Report 2024

admin112 / January 9, 2025

The HeCareZa Project Annual Report 2024 provides an overview of our initiatives, highlighting key achievements . Join us as we…

Gender-Based Violence and Misogyny TikTok Analytics and Narrative Update in South Africa

admin112 / December 19, 2024

Our final fact sheet for the year reviews GBV and misogyny content on the social media platform TikTok. Our findings…

Gender-Based Violence and Misogyny 16 Days of Activism Narrative Update in South Africa

admin112 / December 19, 2024

The 16 Days of Activism fact sheet provides digestible information on the state of the 16 Days campaign in 2024….

Promoting Democracy and an Equitable Society: Xenophobia, spaza shops and allegations of food poisoning

admin112 / November 29, 2024

In this special report we explore the conversation that took place concerning spaza shops and allegations that they were selling…

Social norms about gender on South African Twitter

admin112 / November 22, 2024

This report offers an initial exploration into the perception and maintenance of gendered social norms in the South African context…

HeCareZa: ANNUAL REPORT 2023

admin112 / October 10, 2024

The HeCareZa Project Annual Report 2023 provides an overview of our initiatives, highlighting key achievements . Join us as we…

Smile 90.4FM: Digital Activism and Disinformation

admin112 / October 2, 2024

Camaren Peters joins Benito Vergotine on Smile 90.4FM to talk about Digital Activism and Disinformation. They discuss the collusion between digital activism and disinformation,…