Written by Yossabel Chetty One thing that the COVID-19 pandemic has made clear is that we are under a serious threat from online falsehoods that have real life consequences and the ability to put strain on the bottom line of businesses. In the Global South certain structural contexts contribute to the spreading of these online …
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Written by Yossabel Chetty One thing that the COVID-19 pandemic has made clear is that we are under a serious threat from online falsehoods that have real life consequences and the ability to put strain on the bottom line of businesses. In the Global South certain structural contexts contribute to the spreading of these online …
Book review – Disinformation in the Global South – Written by Yossabel Chetty Read More »
Monitoring and analyzing social media conversations. Yossabel Chetty of the Center of Analytics & Behavioral Change joins us on iAfrikan BYTES to talk about how they use brand monitoring technologies to track, monitor, and analyze online narratives in real-time to report on and prevent fake news. Listen Read full article here.
Social media platforms can be used to share critically important information about disaster management. Read full article
This is a summary of the trending, highest impact, and most active themes and their narratives related to social cohesion and division in South African public-domain social media conversations on 16 July 2020. Global trends impacting on South Africa are also included. Conversations around foreign nationals, inadequate resources for the health sector and black identity …
Every day we observe, dissect and analyse the news and information driving the conversations around the week’s most topical issues on social media. These are the highlights you should know about. Africa Day 25 May As Africa Day celebrations kicked off on the Monday morning, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s message commending the continent was the top …
In this episode, we track the recent history of narrative manipulation and its potential for sowing division on issues, national social cohesion and elections. It looks at how you become a target based on your online profile.
UCT’s Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change launches a project to combat COVID-19 fake news. Over the next six months, social media analytics will be used to track and counter the spread of fake news.
Social media platforms have become thoroughly efficient at connecting many people quickly, making Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and others indispensable to our families, our friends, our work and every part of our lives. Read the full story here >
This DAILY DOSAGE of Data is a high-level summary of the trending, highest impact, and most active Themes & their respective Narratives related to SOCIAL COHESION & DIVISION MIS & DIS INFORMATION as identified from South African public-domain social media conversation Download Report
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