This is the final in a series of reports produced by the Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change (CABC) and the Auwal Socio-Economic Research Institute (ASRI), who tracked election conversation trends on social media. The data is sourced from Twitter and is publicly available in real time. The analysis includes a process of verifying a …
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the critical importance of having access to factual information to enable people to make informed decisions on their health and safety. Read full article
This week’s Mis/Disinformation report looks into social media conversation driven by: newchanges in mandates, questions around vaccine effectiveness and general hesitancy. Read full report
From paintings by artists like Xolani Sivunda to communication campaigns launched by provincial health departments, the fight against Covid-19-related misinformation is being fought on many fronts. Spotlight surveyed some of these efforts and asked health and behaviour experts what does and does not work. Read full article
A painting shows a sick man inside a hand sanitiser bottle, surrounded with human skulls. The painting is the work of Xolani Sivunda, an artist based in Mfuleni, a township near Khayelitsha in Cape town. Read full article
SA’s top vaccinologists, scientists and infectious diseases experts were adamant that Ivermectin would not be authorised until sufficient data proved it to be safe and effective at the doses needed to combat Covid-19. Ivermectin is an anti-parasitic medicine that is being studied across the globe as a possible agent against Covid-19, and in SA is …
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This Vaccine Mis/Disinformation report looks into the last four weeks of social mediaconversations. These were driven by: claims of severe vaccine injuries and/or deaths, newresearch related to side-effects, frustrations due to vaccine mandates, erosion of public trust,miseducation and confusion. Read full report
Here are seven reactions to the above announcement EFF’s Mbuyiseni Ndlozi has questioned the vaccine rollout; DA spokesperson Siviwe Gwarube welcomed the announcement saying “We cannot be complacent or sluggish”; and others have raised other valid concerns. Read the full story here:
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