This Vaccine Mis/Disinformation report looks into the last four weeks of social mediaconversations. These were driven by: conspiracy theories, ways...
24 Hour Trend Report “The Daily Dose”
Challenge & Objectives
With the world suddenly plunged into the grip of a pandemic and the fertile ground that this created online for the spread of misinformation that could lead to serious social consequences, the CABC’s team of data analysts used various tools to track conversations daily on social media, and analyse the rich and useful data to monitor if there was any polarising, divisive rhetoric and narratives that could threaten our society and the response to the pandemic in South Africa.
The Results
We published a report every week day from April through to August 2020 that contained a summary of the trending, highest impact, and most active themes and their narratives. The report focuses on issues of social cohesion and division in South African social media conversations. All the data and conversion is available publicly on social media platforms.
These reports were published on South African media platforms such as The Daily Maverick.
Published Reports
VACCINE MIS/DISINFORMATION WEEKLY REPORT #14
This Vaccine Mis/Disinformation report looks into the last four weeks of social mediaconversations. These were driven by: claims of severe...
Local Government Elections Wrap Up Report – Jan 2022
This is the final in a series of reports produced by the Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change (CABC) and...
VACCINE MIS/DISINFORMATION WEEKLY REPORT #13
This week’s Vaccine Mis/Disinformation report focuses on the social media conversations drivenby Ramaphosa’s positive COVID-19 test result, vaccine hesitancy, vaccine...
VACCINE MIS/DISINFORMATION WEEKLY REPORT #12
This week’s Vaccine Mis/Disinformation report focuses on the social media conversations drivenby the new Omicron variant, resistance against vaccine mandates,...
PODCAST: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTION 2021
Camaren Peter, PhD, Executive Director of the Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change (CABC) and Ebrahim Fakir , Director of...
iono.fm New PSA ‘Last Words’ aims to combat vaccine hesitancy
The 40-second clip by the CABC contains the last words of unvaccinated patients who died from COVID-19 – the message...
Media Release: Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change creates PSA “Last Words” to combat vaccine hesitancy
A new public service announcement (PSA), “Last Words” has been launched on social media and will flight on DSTV, e.tv and...
VACCINE MIS/DISINFORMATION WEEKLY REPORT #11
This week’s Vaccine Mis/Disinformation report focuses on the social media conversations driven by the new Omicron variant, anti-vaxxer rhetoric, immunity,...
COVID-19 VACCINE MIS/DISINFORMATION WEEKLY REPORT #10
This week’s Vaccine Mis/Disinformation report focuses on the social media conversations drivenby vaccine mandates,”medical apartheid”, misinformation, mistrust and the potential...
South Africa COVID-19 And Vaccine Social Listening Report 19 November 2021, Report 27 – SA Corona Virus Online Portal
This is a weekly report of COVID & vaccine sentiment, rumours & misinformation in SA. Read full article