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Behind the Screens in South Africa Challenges
Digital content creators have become increasingly influential actors within contemporary information ecosystems. Across social media platforms, creators inform, entertain, mobilise…
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Times network: Concerns about social media users discriminating against LGBTQIA+ people
A STUDY of more than 900,000 posts on different social media platforms has shown that there is an ever-increasing number…
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The Media Online: When news gets stolen – A watermark on faces to save journalism
Newzroom Afrika has notably deployed watermarks that obscure the faces of interviewees. A growing trend of social media accounts posting…
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Harmful LGBTQIA+ rhetoric becoming normalised on social media
The CABC analysed more than 909 000 posts published by over 156 000 unique users on X between June 2025…
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UNESCO: Build or Break- New campaign challenges young men to reject online misoginy in South Africa
South Africa’s Build or Break campaign urges young men to reject online misogyny and promote respect, dignity and equality in…
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Bizcommunity: #EndtfGBV: Build or Break challenges young men to reject toxic digital culture
A new South African campaign is placing men’s well-being at the centre of the conversation around online behaviour, challenging young…
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Daily News: New campaign in South Africa challenges online misogyny and promotes positive masculinity
A new initiative launched in South Africa aims to tackle the alarming surge of online misogyny and technology-facilitated gender-based violence…
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Talk Africa: Lost in Translation – How AI-powered Content Moderation Misses Online Abuse Against Kenyan Women
By Melisa Mong’ina Nairobi, Kenya: When Aidah Munzatsi posts a video on TikTok, she braces herself for the criticism that…
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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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Twitter accounts that instigated mayhem and unrest in SA – The Clement Manyathela Show
Jesse Cann, Research Project Lead from The Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change in UCT, spoke to Clement about the…
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The Media – Mirror or Machete? The Role of the Media in Covering the Crisis (Part 2).
Associate Professor Camaren Peter, Executive Director of the CABC interrogates traditional and social media's role in reporting, analysing and fueling…
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The Media: Mirror or Machete? The Role of the Media in Covering the Crisis (Part 1).
Associate Professor Camaren Peter, Executive Director of the CABC interrogates traditional and social media's role in reporting, analysing and fueling…
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Transitional trauma: The born-free generation can create the future that moves us beyond our past
The youth of South Africa may have envisioned a very different reality for their country from what they have witnessed…
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Paying attention to how social media is used – The Talking Point – SAFm
Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town's Graduate School of Business Cameren Peter says it is becoming more and…
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RET or death: Is Gigaba perpetuating the faction narrative?
According to independent research, the idea of RET is being abused by 'a handful of political elite seeking personal benefit'…
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SA corona virus online portal: SA COVID-19 and vaccine social listening report 19 July 2021, Report 10 – SA corona virus online portal
This is a weekly report of COVID & vaccine concerns, rumours and misinformation in SA prepared by the RCCE Social…
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How social media fuelled the burning and looting
We need to pay much more serious attention to the agitation taking place in cyberspace, writes Camaren Peter Read full…
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Yaum Un Jadeed With Zahir Bassa – CII radio interview
Yaum Un Jadeed – The imprisonment of Jacob Zuma is a failure of our politics not our institutions With Guest…
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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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IOL: Hashtags showing anti-immigrant sentiment likely artificially manipulated – research finds
Johannesburg – In a new report, the Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change (CABC) found that the online conversations using…
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Webinar: Centre for Analytics & Behavioural Change (CABC) & the Enhancing Accountability Technical Assistance Facility (TAF)
The Centre for Analytics & Behavioural Change (CABC) & the Enhancing Accountability Technical Assistance Facility (TAF) present key findings from…
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OPINION | Camaren Peter: A tale of two countries – how SA’s psyche delineates along two dimensions
Camaren Peter reflects on the cases on two women – Lauren Dickason and Bongeko Buso – and how the two…
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Daily Maverick – No matter what Elon Musk tweets about farm murders, two wrongs don’t make a white genocide
Elon Musk’s posts about a ‘white genocide’ and claims that white farmers are killed every day have no basis and…
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Blame ANC, not migrants for ills – Mashaba | The Citizen
ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba emphasises complex socio-economic challenges and criticises corruption, mismanagement, and the breakdown in border policing. Read…
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