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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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Heart FM: New research raises concerns about increased child predation on social media
A new report by the Center for Analytics and Behavioral Change has raised serious concerns about child predation on social…
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SABC NEWS: concerns over ‘sexualisation of minors’
The Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change (CABC), which has revealed deeply troubling narratives and trends regarding child sexual exploitation,…
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iOL:Predatory behaviour toward minors is being normalised online, and you should be very concerned
The new report by the Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change (CABC), which has revealed deeply troubling narratives and trends…
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SowetanLIVE:Normalisation of adult-minor sexual relations on the rise across social media platforms – Research
The Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change (CABC) last week released a report titled The State of Child Predation Online, which analyses…
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TEARS Training Academy raise concerns over the safety of young girls using social media #sabcnews
By Newsbreak Producer Shanell Daniel – Concerns have been raised for the safety of young girls using social media platforms….
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How the conversation about the employment of immigrants at SA universities is being amplified online
Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change Over the years, the South African online anti-immigrant narrative has drawn on several topics…
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‘Make South Africa Great Again’ — Tracking the ‘movement’ online
Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change Racial tensions on social media are flaring up, as minority groups call on US…
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Free expression? Meta’s decision to scrap fact-checkers poses risks
Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change Meta’s decision to remove fact-checkers from its platforms and replace them with user-generated community…
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Legal Ethics, Education and AI: Where do we generate the line?
Kyle Janse On the 30th of November 2022, a free-to-use generative artificial intelligence chatbot, namely ChatGPT, was launched and made…
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CABC does battle in online war between fact and fiction
CABC does battle in online war between fact and fiction The Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change (CABC) is…
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Pan-African News Wire| South Africa: Who’s Behind 16 Days of Activism Online?
The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is an annual international campaign that kicks off on 25 November, the…
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The South African: Are there snippets of the disinformation playbook in SA?
Online disinformation thrives on divisive issues like unemployment, inequality and crime in South Africa. In this article, researcher Molebogeng Mokoka…
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FRIDAY BRIEFING | Posioned food crisis: Is closing spaza shops the answer? | News24
The blame is being laid on spaza shops for children's deaths when there is no political will to deal with…
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Gender Norms, Smile FM 25/11 With Kyle Janse
The Center for Analytics and Behavioral Change has released its latest report, Social Norms about Gender on South African Twitter.
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Smile 90.4FM: Digital Activism and Disinformation
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,…
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Daily Maverick: Roman Cabanac punted nuclear deal on Rosatom freebie to Russia
Newly appointed chief of staff for the Ministry of Agriculture Roman Cabanac’s engagements with Russia are not only online. He…
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Daily Maverick: What South Africans need from political leaders – Courage and commitment to peace
he May 2024 elections that caused a seismic shift in power may leave the impression that there is very little…
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iono.fm: Democratic participation, civic education and the GNU
In this episode, Associate Professor Camaren Peter, Executive Director at the CABC sits down with Wellington Radu, who is the…
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IOL: Miss SA beauty pageant dominates anti-immigrant conversation in July, report reveals
The Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change (CABC) has revealed that the online conversation about former Miss SA contestant Chidimma…
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SA COVID-19 and vaccine social listening report 6
This is a weekly report of Covid & vaccine concerns, rumours and misinformation in SA prepared by the RCCE Social…
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SA COVID-19 and vaccine social listening report 5
This is a weekly report of Covid & vaccine concerns, rumours and misinformation in SA prepared by the RCCE Social…
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Demand generation vaccine trust spectrum segmentation report
Using a query designed to capture as much general vaccine conversation as possible, Brandwatch data was retrieved for the period…
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SA COVID-19 and vaccine social listening report 4
This is a weekly report of Covid & vaccine concerns, rumours and misinformation in SA prepared by the RCCE Social…
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Confuse and Divide: tracking a network that twists the truth
CABC MEDIA RELEASE Confuse and Divide: tracking a network that twists the truth Research by the CABC has uncovered an…
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RET’s digital war of words: The fake online network hijacking the Twittersphere
A network of inauthentic accounts is twisting policy for its misinformation machine. read full article
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The RET Twitter campaign’s echoes of Bell Pottinger
CABC found 51 'suspicious' accounts perpetuating RET narratives, and put them through their internal analysing and visualisation tools. Read full article
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Pillars of misinformation: A closer look at the RET network
A network of social media accounts is abusing so-called radical economic transformation (RET) policy to peddle misinformation and create racial…
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ANC must reclaim ethical high ground and undergo total reformation of its leadership culture if it wants us back | Daily Maverick
Under Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki, the ANC government projected a leadership culture that was professional, diplomatic, disciplined and devoted…
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COVID-19, Politics and hesitancy
Issued by: Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change 14 September 2021 COVID-19, POLITICS AND HESITANCY The vaccine roll-out programme…
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Local government elections wrap up report
This is the final in a series of reports produced by the Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change (CABC) and…
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Fighting disinformation & fake news
SAFM Interview on countering disinformation & fake news online.
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How bots accounts are putting lives in danger during Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the critical importance of having access to factual information to enable people to make informed…
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Vaccine mis/disinformation weekly report #17
This week’s Mis/Disinformation report looks into social media conversation driven by: newchanges in mandates, questions around vaccine effectiveness and general…
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‘Truth offensive’ needed to counter Covid-19 vaccine misinformation, says messaging expert
From paintings by artists like Xolani Sivunda to communication campaigns launched by provincial health departments, the fight against Covid-19-related misinformation…
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COVID-19 Truth offensive
A painting shows a sick man inside a hand sanitiser bottle, surrounded with human skulls. The painting is the work…
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Social media hype over Ivermectin is unproven and irresponsible – experts
SA's top vaccinologists, scientists and infectious diseases experts were adamant that Ivermectin would not be authorised until sufficient data proved…
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Vaccine mis/disinformation weekly report #14.
This Vaccine Mis/Disinformation report looks into the last four weeks of social mediaconversations. These were driven by: claims of severe…
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SA to receive a million doses of Covid-19 vaccine in January and 500,000 doses in February from the Serum Institute of India (SII).
Here are seven reactions to the above announcement EFF's Mbuyiseni Ndlozi has questioned the vaccine rollout; DA spokesperson Siviwe Gwarube…
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This week – African Investigative Journalism Conference, public sector workers demonstration and talk on ethical conduct in SA public schools
On Monday, 31 October, at 8.30am, the 18th African Investigative Journalism Conference kicked off in Johannesburg and will run until Wednesday,…
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ANALYSIS | Pushing for Lotto punters: Were there any ethical breaches in paid social media campaign?
Should advertisers be allowed to manipulate social media algorithms to get content to trend? Yossabel Chetty examines the ethics around a recent…
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Online discussions over Phala Phala theft were manipulated, report finds.
The CABC investigation analysed patterns of online engagements on social media platforms between June 1, 2022 and September 15, 2022….
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Phala Phala allegations spark non-stop online campaign to stoke dissent against Ramaphosa
The Phala Phala saga has remained prominent on social media for several months. The Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change…
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Social media can be used to tackle thorny issue of GBV, data shows
The non-profit company hosted a webinar where experts delved into their strategy of using social media listening tools to explore…
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