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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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Data & Analytics on South Africa’s #NationalShutDown
In this episode of iAfrikan BYTES, we're joined by Molebogeng Mokoka and Euston Witbooi from The Centre for Analytics and…
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Study blows lid on xenophobic Twitter network run by ‘uLerato Pillay’
Over a decade after the first wave of widespread xenophobic attacks happened in South Africa, the country is still fraught…
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Social media ‘guns for hire’ – Xenophobic rhetoric intended to manipulate SA
It appears, according to a report, that social media discussions on xenophobia are being manipulated, and that around 80 dormant…
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Social media may deepen understanding of GBV: report
New report on GBV and social media looks at how AKA’s death was treated on Twitter. To read the…
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OPINIONISTA: We need leaders who can help us find our way through the noise and despair and inspire hope
We limped out of the pandemic, shell-shocked and bamboozled, into a world that is overwhelming us with the ferocious velocity…
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ANALYSIS: Are we seeing the rise of the right in SA?
Camaren Peter argues we are seeing an emergence of both left- and right-wing populism in the South African political spectrum,…
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Report highlights prominence of xenophobia
The report mainly focuses on social media and the role it plays in xenophobic attacks. A recent report released by…
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New report unpacks the online xenophobia conversation targeting foreigners
Research has found that the online anti-foreigner conversation continues to flourish, with proponents citing a number of South Africa’s socio-economic…
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More than 80% of online posts show negative sentiment for foreigners
The consensus in the online conversation remains that foreigners are one of, if not the main reason, South Africa is…
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OPINIONISTA: We the people have the power to forge the democracy we want — but it will require an active citizenry
We are all complicit — whether by fault or default — in the widescale collapse that is unfolding in South…
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This week – African Investigative Journalism Conference, public sector workers demonstration and talk on ethical conduct in SA public schools
On Monday, 31 October, at 8.30am, the 18th African Investigative Journalism Conference kicked off in Johannesburg and will run until Wednesday,…
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ANALYSIS | Pushing for Lotto punters: Were there any ethical breaches in paid social media campaign?
Should advertisers be allowed to manipulate social media algorithms to get content to trend? Yossabel Chetty examines the ethics around a recent…
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Online discussions over Phala Phala theft were manipulated, report finds.
The CABC investigation analysed patterns of online engagements on social media platforms between June 1, 2022 and September 15, 2022….
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Phala Phala allegations spark non-stop online campaign to stoke dissent against Ramaphosa
The Phala Phala saga has remained prominent on social media for several months. The Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change…
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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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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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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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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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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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