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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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Caolan Robertson – Part 3 of 3. What next? A Conversation about addressing ‘Fake News’ in the future
The final conversation with Caolan is a conversation about solutions, and about the future. Caolan has a unique perspective on…
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Caolan Robertson – Part 1 of 3. farmlands – The Making of a Misleading ‘Documentary’
Caolan Robertson (pronounced “kay-lin) was one of the central figures in making right-wing politics mainstream, he worked with people like…
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State capture: Mpofu and the bid to bamboozle the public
In an era of post-truth “alternative facts”, smoke and mirrors tactics have become the new currency of political gamesmanship Read…
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#FakeNews and lies are amplified on social media
Anti-foreigner hashtags continue to swirl around local Twitter, together with misleading claims and links to fake news sites. Don’t be…
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PEAK OF THE WEEK: South Africa’s trends analysis in the week ending 3 December 2020
This is a summary of the trending, highest impact and most active themes and their narratives related to social cohesion…
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OP-ED:The politics of the base and the contestation for global dominance threaten democracy
The key threat to democracy today is not ideological, in the sense that opposing or alternative ideologies threaten to replace…
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Peak of the week: South Africa’s weekly trends: November 12 – 19
This is a summary of the trending, highest impact and most active themes and their narratives related to social cohesion…
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Disinformation in a time of Covid-19: Weekly trends in South Africa
A crisis such as the Covid-19 pandemic creates a perfect opportunity for those who wish to cause confusion, chaos, and…
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PEAK OF THE WEEK: South Africa’s weekly trends report to 5 November 2020
This is a summary of the trending, highest impact, and most active themes and narratives related to social cohesion and…
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#PutSouthAfricansFirst peddling malicious, divisive untruths about human trafficking
A social media movement using the tag #PutSouthAfricansFirst has been found to peddle malicious, divisive untruths about human trafficking that…
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Jean Le Roux Expose – Part 2 of 3. Guptabots and disinformation in South Africa
This episode, the 2nd in a special three-part series with Jean Le Roux, Adam and Jean discuss Jean’s career trajectory,…
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Jean Le Roux Expose – Part 3 of 3. Fake News – Not just an American problem!
This is the 3rd episode in the 3-part series recorded with Jean Le Roux, a Research Associate at the Digital…
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#putsouthafricansfirst: Spreading hate speech, inciting violence, breaking the law
Real411 is affiliated to Media Monitoring Africa and enables the public to report disinformation, hate speech, incitement to violence and…
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Disinformation in a time of Covid-19: Weekly trends in SA
Week 19: Public officials, the media and disinformation — fire starters or fire extinguishers? Read full article
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PEAK OF THE WEEK: South Africa’s weekly trends report: 22 to 29 October | Daily Maverick
This is a summary of the trending, highest impact, and most active themes and narratives related to social cohesion and…
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OPINION | Hatred and fear in the ‘Place of Gold’: Dangerous anti-foreigner antipathy in Gauteng
The Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated anti-foreigner sentiment in South Africa, especially in Gauteng, making the province ripe for another wave…
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Peak Of The Week: South Africa’s weekly trends report: 23 – 30 September
This is a summary of the trending, highest impact, and most active themes and their narratives related to social cohesion…
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Renewable Energy is not a nice-to-have, it’s a must if we are to save our economy.
SA has one of the most carbon intensive economies in the world and it’s threatening our exports and will weaken…
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UCT cyber analysts uncover campaign to promote xenophobia on Twitter-defenceWeb
There is a coordinated attempt to manipulate conversations with a xenophobic tone on South African social media platforms, analysts from…
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Xenophobic #PutSouthAfricansFirst accounts ‘fuelling social discord’ online
A surge in xenophobic rhetoric on Twitter has been observed, and the #PutSouthAfricansFirst tag is believed to be at the…
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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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OPINIONISTA: We need leaders who can help us find our way through the noise and despair and inspire hope
We limped out of the pandemic, shell-shocked and bamboozled, into a world that is overwhelming us with the ferocious velocity…
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The same tool that is used to perpetuate misogyny, gender-based violence and inequality can be used to heal.
The same tool that is used to perpetuate misogyny, gender-based violence and inequality can be used to heal. Centre for…
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