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Sunday Independent: Worsening urban water crisis shapes political narratives ahead of 2026 elections
As South Africa approaches the pivotal 2026 local government elections, a newly released factsheet by the Centre for Analytics and…
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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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Factsheet on anti-immigrant social media conversation in South Africa
Social media has become a key space for anti-immigrant social media conversation in South Africa, shaping how people discuss migration,…
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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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The Dirty Dozen & the amplification of incendiary content during the outbreak of unrest in South Africa July 2021
The Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change (CABC) has uncovered traces of the RET forces network that participated in and…
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The imprisonment of Jacob Zuma is a failure of our politics, not our institutions
Jacob Zuma will be a more powerful figure inside prison than he is outside it. That is because it is…
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The Honest Truth: An interview with Praveen Naidoo
Smile FM, The Honest Truth. An interview with Praveen Naidoo a media manager for The Center for Analytics & Behavioural…
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SA Covid-19 and vaccine social listening report 8
This is a weekly report of COVID & vaccine concerns, rumours and misinformation in SA prepared by the RCCE Social…
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Disinformation, misinformation and barefaced lies: The online war of words in the Battle of Nkandla
Jacob Zuma and his supporters have wrapped their campaign around one big misrepresentation, which they unashamedly put into the public…
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The Tembisa 10 and RET forces
Supporters of former president Jacob Zuma, ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule and others in their faction – known as radical economic…
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SA COVID-19 and vaccine social listening report 7
This is a weekly report of COVID & vaccine concerns, rumours and misinformation in SA prepared by the RCCE Social…
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COVID-19 Vaccine mis/disinformation weekly report
The following report summarises top COVID-19 vaccination themes in the previous week’s South African social media conversation. Download Reports (PDF
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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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Data & Analytics on South Africa’s #NationalShutDown
In this episode of iAfrikan BYTES, we're joined by Molebogeng Mokoka and Euston Witbooi from The Centre for Analytics and…
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Study blows lid on xenophobic Twitter network run by ‘uLerato Pillay’
Over a decade after the first wave of widespread xenophobic attacks happened in South Africa, the country is still fraught…
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Social media ‘guns for hire’ – Xenophobic rhetoric intended to manipulate SA
It appears, according to a report, that social media discussions on xenophobia are being manipulated, and that around 80 dormant…
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Unite against xenophobia
The CABC's team of analysts discovered that xenophobic narratives were on the increase after lockdown. The film, created by the…
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Social media may deepen understanding of GBV: report
New report on GBV and social media looks at how AKA’s death was treated on Twitter. To read the…
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