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Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewit: Exploring how the internet fuels ideas of masculinity and challenges traditional norms, with insi…
Following the Netflix documentary Inside the Manosphere and the listener conversations it sparked, Lester Kiewit speaks to Kyle Janse, researcher…
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Rosebank Killarney Gazette:The Centre for Analytics and Behaviour Change and Moxii Africa unite for Social Media 4 Peace project
The SM4P project seeks to enhance the resilience of societies against harmful online content. In a collaborative effort, the Centre…
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Kirsten Peason on How Viral Misinformation Is Endangering South Africans | #AfricaWorldHour
False posts targeting TV presenter Pabi Moloi have reignited concerns about the real-world harm caused by viral misinformation in South…
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Smile FM The Honest Truth with Benito Vergotine: Mapping Child Predation Online
Smile 90.4FM The Honest Truth with Benito Vergotine, Uncovers how mainstream platforms have become enablers of child exploitation, with senior…
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Smile FM The Honest Truth with Benito Vergotine: Mapping Child Predation Online
Smile 90.4FM The Honest Truth with Benito Vergotine, Uncovers how mainstream platforms have become enablers of child exploitation, with senior…
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UNESCO: Social Media 4 Peace – Building a digital shield for South Africa
South Africa’s new UNESCO–EU coalition unites media, civil society and regulators to curb online harm and turn digital spaces into…
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Daily Maverick: Viral lies, real consequences — the price of Facebook’s inaction
TV presenter Pabi Moloi’s ordeal exemplifies the broader failure of social media platforms, including Facebook, to adequately regulate the spread…
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ECR: SA researchers alarmed over spread of child sexual abuse material on social media
South African researchers have sounded the alarm over the spread of child sexual abuse material on social media platforms. …
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allAfrica.com Kenya: Tiktok Hosts Multi-Stakeholder Safety Roundtables in Kenya As It
As part of its ongoing commitment to safety and inclusivity,TikTok, in partnership with the Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change…
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Sandton Chronicle: Roundtable highlights abuse of women journalists
At a recent roundtable, SA media leaders demanded accountability from tech giants over harassment, bias, and AI abuse. Read the…
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Talk Africa Silencing the Screens: TikTok, Tech Experts Unite with Kenyan Media to End Online Abuse of Women
TalkAfrica is an online publication established by the Association of Freelance Journalists (AFJ) – Kenya, whose content is written Freelance…
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Citizen Digital: Women in media call for stronger protection against online abuse
In the recent past, women journalists and creators in Kenya have increasingly become a target for tech-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV)…
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Peoples Gazette Nigeria: TikTok moves to curb tech-facilitated gender-based violence
Ms Mkhize said that as the digital landscape evolves, women and vulnerable communities continue to face unique online threats. Read…
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TikTok, CABC to tackle online gender-based violence in Nigeria
TikTok and the Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change (CABC) held a roundtable in Lagos to address the pressing issue…
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TikTok, CABC hold Women-in-Media safety roundtables in Lagos, Abuja
TikTok and the Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change (CABC) held a roundtable in Lagos to address the pressing issue…
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TikTok, CABC host safety roundtables in Lagos, Abuja
The officials say the goal is to build lasting partnerships and empower women to participate freely and securely in digital…
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Editors’ forum calls on social media companies to stop attacks on women journalists
The executive director of the South African National Editors' Forum says online violence against journalists, especially women reporters, has become…
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East Coast Radio :SA researchers sound alarm over spread of child pornographic material on social media
South African researchers have sounded the alarm over the spread of child pornographic material on social media platforms. The Center…
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Smile 90.4FM The Honest Truth: Digital platforms by design are enabling child predation. 4/8/25
Researcher Kyle Jenssen from The Center for Analytics and Behavioral Change joins Smile 90.4FM The Honest Truth to confront a…
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The role of mis and disinformation in the media and its effects on democracy
Listen to the new episode of the Pulse as we interview Chris Roper the deputy CEO for the continent’s largest…
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The role of mis and disinformation in the media and its effects on democracy
Listen to the new episode of the Pulse as we interview Chris Roper the deputy CEO for the continent’s largest…
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Periodic Report 2 Foreign Nationals
This periodic report is the second in a series of bi-monthly reports that focus on conversations about foreign nationals in…
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Periodic report
This report forms part of a series of biweekly reports that track and summarise the key current narratives within South…
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A game to fight misinformation: How fun can help you tell fact from fiction
Do you ever feel like you can’t trust what you read online? You’re not alone. In today’s digital age, it’s…
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Regular report foreign nationals
This regular report for the month of June 2022 assesses conversations about foreign nationals on South African social media. Operation…
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Social media vigilantism is alive and trending in South Africa
As South Africa last week marked the first anniversary of the July unrest that swept through KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces, the use…
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Fathers urged to step up beyond their special day
Cape Town – As Father’s Day celebrations came to an end, a clarion call was made by several organisations for…
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A nation divided: The battle for renewal
The collapse of the social compact and deterioration of society into fragmented and polarised groups underpins the decline of democracy,…
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Lay of the land report
This report summarises all current and former narratives within South Africa’s online democracy conversation between January and May 2022. Five…
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Xenophobia in South Africa 2022 Research Report
In the first half of 2022, the extent of xenophobic content related to South Africa on social media increased. The…
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Social media’s altered influence
The Constitution protects fundamentals adequately, but no country can legislate human decency, writes Praveen Naidoo. Read full article
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Lessons from Lagos: How social media works for good during a crisis
In times of crisis, it is especially crucial that governments share accurate, up to date information with their citizens. Social…
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Monitoring and analyzing social media conversations
Monitoring and analyzing social media conversations. Yossabel Chetty of the Center of Analytics & Behavioral Change joins us on iAfrikan BYTES…
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The other pandemic: social media engagement around non-communicable disease preventive behaviours during Nigeria’s COVID-19 lockdowns (Full Academic Paper)
Given the complexity of global health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, it is typical for crisis-focused interventions to have…
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The dangers of social media in weakening democracy
Online narrative manipulation tactics under the banner of free speech and association are poisoning the minds of unsuspecting South Africans….
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ANALYSIS | Who is behind South Africa’s xenophobic nationalism?
Evidence gathered for amaBhungane suggests that if South Africa descends into xenophobic violence, it will be disproportionately due to the…
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amaBhungane Analysis: Who is behind South Africa’s xenophobic nationalism?
Evidence gathered for amaBhungane suggests that if South Africa descends into xenophobic violence, it will be disproportionately due to the…
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BIG READ: Fighting back against the global information disorder
The public sphere is being contaminated by rumour, hatred and deception, writes Herman Wasserman Read full article
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ONLINE NARRATIVES: Posts about the death of Elvis Nyathi stoke the flames of xenophobia
Online narratives that surfaced following the death of Zimbabwean Elvis Nyathi in Diepsloot appear to have been manipulated to sow…
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Life: ‘Needed interventions’: Google teams up with local business to promote online safety in Africa
Impact Accelerator launched the African Online Safety Platform, thanks to funding from Google Read full article
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Social TV: Africa Online Safety Platform launched in SA – Social TV
Impact Amplifier, with the financial support of Google.org, today launched its African Online Safety Platform (AOSP). The Africa Online Safety Platform…
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SowetanLIVE: ‘Anti-immigrants disinformation before polls a red flag’
The Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change (CABC) has cautioned against the growing anti-immigration sentiments and the spread of disinformation…
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iol.co.za: ANC, Jacob Zuma and uMkhonto weSizwe the most talked about online
Most of the mentions have been the fracas between the ANC and its former president with as many as 85…
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BusinessLIVE: The evolution of values-based leadership
SPONSORED | Camaren Peter of UCT's Allan Gray Centre for Values-Based Leadership explains how our understanding of leadership has changed…
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