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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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Media update: Sesame Workshop Launches ‘Bond Through Play’ Campaign
Takalani Sesame has launched its 'Bond Through Play' campaign, which aims to encourage fathers to bond with their children. The…
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Fact Check: Goolammv ‘unmasking’ raises more questions than it answers
Independent Media’s alleged “unmasking” of various members of the public in hopes of revealing the identity of the person behind…
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Project spotlights the critical role of Fathers in the lives of their children
By Esther Schippers Positive relationships with fathers or male caregivers and an environment free of violence are hugely valuable investments…
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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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Democratic participation, civic education and the Government (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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Monthly Social Listening Updates & Recommendations for online conversations about immigrants in South Africa: June 2024
This report provides an overview of online conversations about immigrants in South Africa for the month of June 2024. This…
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Vaccine mis/disinformation weekly report #3
This week’s Vaccine Mis/Disinformation report focuses on the social media conversations drivenlargely by fringe conspiracy theories. Read full report
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EDITORIAL | TikTok is to be commended for running down the clock on political advertising
The Beijing-based TikTok phenomenon that has left Mark Zuckerberg and co scrambling to catch up, has introduced welcome new policies…
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EDITORIAL | TikTok is to be commended for running down the clock on political advertising
The Beijing-based TikTok phenomenon that has left Mark Zuckerberg and co scrambling to catch up, has introduced welcome new policies…
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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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IOL – 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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Project spotlights the critical role of Fathers in the lives of their children
By Esther Schippers Positive relationships with fathers or male caregivers and an environment free of violence are hugely valuable investments…
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Periodic Report
This report forms part of a series of biweekly reports that track and summarise the key current narratives within South…
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Book review Disinformation in the Global South – Written by Yossabel Chetty
Written by Yossabel Chetty One thing that the COVID-19 pandemic has made clear is that we are under a serious…
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The role of mis and disinformation in the media and its effects on democracy
Listen to the new episode of the Pulse as we interview Chris Roper the deputy CEO for the continent’s largest…
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The role of mis and disinformation in the media and its effects on democracy
Listen to the new episode of the Pulse as we interview Chris Roper the deputy CEO for the continent’s largest…
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Periodic Report 2 Foreign Nationals
This periodic report is the second in a series of bi-monthly reports that focus on conversations about foreign nationals in…
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Periodic report
This report forms part of a series of biweekly reports that track and summarise the key current narratives within South…
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A game to fight misinformation: How fun can help you tell fact from fiction
Do you ever feel like you can’t trust what you read online? You’re not alone. In today’s digital age, it’s…
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Regular report foreign nationals
This regular report for the month of June 2022 assesses conversations about foreign nationals on South African social media. Operation…
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Social media vigilantism is alive and trending in South Africa
As South Africa last week marked the first anniversary of the July unrest that swept through KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces, the use…
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Fathers urged to step up beyond their special day
Cape Town – As Father’s Day celebrations came to an end, a clarion call was made by several organisations for…
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A nation divided: The battle for renewal
The collapse of the social compact and deterioration of society into fragmented and polarised groups underpins the decline of democracy,…
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Lay of the land report
This report summarises all current and former narratives within South Africa’s online democracy conversation between January and May 2022. Five…
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Xenophobia in South Africa 2022 Research Report
In the first half of 2022, the extent of xenophobic content related to South Africa on social media increased. The…
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Social media’s altered influence
The Constitution protects fundamentals adequately, but no country can legislate human decency, writes Praveen Naidoo. Read full article
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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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