This is a weekly report of Covid & vaccine sentiment, rumours & misinformation in SA. Further info here. This is the half-birthday of this report – it has now come out every week for half a year. Read full report
Author: CABC
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Demand Generation Vaccine Trust Spectrum Segmentation Report
Using a query designed to capture as much general vaccine conversation as possible, Brandwatch data was retrieved for the period from June 13 to Sept 7, 2021. We also used BrandsEye’s crowd to obtain a more in-depth analysis on our findings, as well as CABC’s own tool, Anansi, to identify any inauthentic, coordinated vaccine-hesitancy messaging....
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COVID-19 VACCINE MIS/DISINFORMATION WEEKLY REPORT#8– 11 November 2021
The first section of this week’s Vaccine Mis/Disinformation Report includes an analytics review and discusses proposed responses to several key content pieces. The second part looks at the social media conversations driven largely by religion and vaccine eligibility for children. Read full report
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COVID-19 VACCINE MIS/DISINFORMATION WEEKLY REPORT#1 – 9 September 2021
The following report summarises top COVID-19 vaccination themes in the previous week’s South African social media conversation. Download Reports (PDF
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Impact Amplifier Preliminary Analytic Report
This preliminary report covers the period from June 18 to Aug 17, 2021. Results are geo filtered to the six countries included in the Impact Amplifier project. Data is limited to posts on Twitter during this period that included any of the keywords and phrases listed in Fig. 2. Focusing on the six specified countries,...
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COVID-19 Vaccine Mis/Disinformation Weekly Report – 19 August 2021
The following report summarises top COVID-19 vaccination themes in the previous week’s South African social media conversation. Download Reports (PDF
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Covid-19 | Demand less than supply as vaccine hesitancy soars, report reveals
Government’s plan to vaccinate as many South Africans as possible faces a setback as disinformation tactics put millions of lives at risk by blurring facts about vaccination with fictional conspiracy theories. A weekly report compiled by several organisations conducting social listening on Covid-19 vaccines found that a lack of demand was hindering the roll-out programme....
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COVID-19 Vaccine Mis/Disinformation Weekly Report – 12 August 2021
The following report summarises top COVID-19 vaccination themes in the previous week’s South African social media conversation. Download Reports (PDF
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COVID-19 Vaccine Mis/Disinformation Weekly Report – 5 August 2021
The following report summarises top COVID-19 vaccination themes in the previous week’s South African social media conversation. Download Reports (PDF
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The Dirty Dozen & The Amplification of Incendiary Content During the Outbreak of Unrest in South Africa July 2021
The Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change (CABC) has uncovered traces of the RET forces network that participated in and aided the amplification of online incitement of violence that claimed hundreds of lives and brought thousands of businesses to their knees in the week of 11 July 2021. Download Report (PDF)