This Vaccine Mis/Disinformation report looks into the last four weeks of social mediaconversations. These were driven by: conspiracy theories, ways...
Weekly Social Cohesion Report
The Challenge
What happens on public social media and in reality appear to be worlds apart. Conversations on social media contribute in constructive ways to the issues that affect our lives every day. It highlights peoples’ fears and aspirations, their wishes and desires, their anger and distrust. More importantly it tracks the social issues that have the potential to divide us, cause social upheaval and undermine South African society.
This report keeps track of these issues on social media and summarises the trending, highest impact, and most active themes and their narratives on public social media.
The CABC’s team of data analysts use online tools to track conversations daily on social media, and analyse the rich and useful data.
Project Objective
The Analysis of social media conversations support CABC projects to conduct their work. Current projects include countering xenophobia, digital narrative manipulation and countering misogyny.
An edited version of the report is published in mainstream media and available to the public, civil society organisations, government and other institutions who track issues of social cohesion in South Africa.
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