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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 President Donald Trump to support them in making South Africa great “again”. Among the beliefs shared by the crowd of about 1,500 Afrikaans-speaking people who gathered outside the American Embassy in Pretoria on 15 February, …

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Online conversation about the Expropriation Act

This report unpacks the online conversation about land expropriation in South Africa on X (formerly twitter) and TikTok. Focus areas include the narratives for and against expropriation and the misinformation used to justify certain viewpoints. The report divides authors within the conversation into two categories, those contributing a high number of mentions predominantly through reposts, …

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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 notes has sparked concerns around mis and disinformation online.  CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced last week that the company sought to encourage free expression and reduce censorship on its platforms. He also accused third-party fact-checkers of …

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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 available worldwide. The chatbot, seemingly all-knowing, took the world by storm, and shortly thereafter, the variety of its uses was explored and perpetuated in society. However, the inherent dangers of the bot were similarly exposed, …

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