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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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UCT deep dive into xenophobia on Twitter
UCT’s Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change has found evidence of attempts to manipulate conversations with a xenophobic tone on…
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Covid-Organics: How the debate played out on social media
While Africa applauded the first announcement of a remedy for Covid-19, the West was sceptical. Developed countries joined the World…
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The great debate: Covid-19 and how Africans are perceived
No other continent has suffered the level of racism and prejudice that Africa has, write Cameren Peter and Shivani Ghai,…
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IDIDTHAT Craft Awards August 2020 – IDIDTHAT.co
The IDIDTHAT Craft Awards for August were judged by CCO of FCB Africa, Tseliso Rangaka and Owner of Produce Sound,…
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Peak Of The Week: South Africa’s weekly trends report: 27 August – 3 September
This is a summary of the trending, highest impact, and most active themes and narratives identified in South African social…
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24 Hour Trend Report | 24 August 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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Coordinated attempt to manipulate xenophobia-centered conversations on SA social media’, CABC report shows
There is evidence of an active, co-ordinated attempt to manipulate social media conversations on xenophobia in South African, according to…
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24 hour trend report
This is a summary of the trending, highest impact, and most active themes and their narratives related to social cohesion…
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Xenophobic content in SA tweeted 120 times more since one toxic account was founded
The Lerato Pillay Twitter account and the #PutSouthAfricaFirst hashtag is the kindling to a deadly social media fire aimed at…
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‘Twitter being used to fuel anger against foreign nationals’
SOUTH Africans on social media, in particular Twitter, are being manipulated into supporting articially amplied anger against foreigners living in…
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24 hour trend report
This is a summary of the trending, highest impact, and most active themes and their narratives related to social cohesion…
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24 hour trend report
This is a summary of the trending, highest impact, and most active themes and their narratives related to social cohesion…
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24 hour trend report
This is a summary of the trending, highest impact, and most active themes and their narratives related to social cohesion…
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24 Hour Trend Report | 18 August 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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Xenophobic tweets likely an ‘organised network’ linked to one influential account, study reveals
Users keen to continue spreading xenophobic content even create throw-away accounts or pay other people to spread content, according to…
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Study blows lid open on xenophobic twitter network run by ulerato pillay
JOHANNESBURG – Over a decade after the first wave of widespread xenophobic attacks happened in South Africa, the country is…
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Study blows lid on xenophobic Twitter network run by ‘uLerato Pillay’
Study blows lid open on xenophobic PutSouthAfricansFirst Twitter network run by uLerato__pillay Reminiscent of the days of the UK's Bell…
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‘@uLerato_pillay: How the xenophobic network around #PutSouthAfricaFirst was born and then metastasised | Daily Maverick
South Africans on Twitter are witnessing the rise of an influential anti-immigrant lobby and thousands, captured by a make-believe character,…
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The week in social media | 17 – 21 August 2020
Every day we observe, dissect and analyse the news and information driving the conversations around the week’s most topical issues…
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The week in social media | 10 – 14 Aug
Every day we observe, dissect and analyse the news and information driving the conversations around the week’s most topical issues…
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ANALYSIS: Are we seeing the rise of the right in SA?
Camaren Peter argues we are seeing an emergence of both left- and right-wing populism in the South African political spectrum,…
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ANALYSIS | Camaren Peter: Are we seeing the rise of the right in SA?
Camaren Peter argues we are seeing an emergence of both left- and right-wing populism in the South African political spectrum,…
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Report highlights prominence of xenophobia
The report mainly focuses on social media and the role it plays in xenophobic attacks. A recent report released by…
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Report highlights prominence of xenophobia |ZULULAND OBSERVER
The report mainly focuses on social media and the role it plays in xenophobic attacks. A recent report released by…
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New report unpacks the online xenophobia conversation targeting foreigners
Research has found that the online anti-foreigner conversation continues to flourish, with proponents citing a number of South Africa’s socio-economic…
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