As we head closer to the municipal elections expected to take place on 1 November, the trend of mis- and disinformation on social media is expected to grow as party and candidate campaigning intensifies, making it essential for voters to be able to separate fact from fiction, Read full article
Ahead of the municipal elections on 1 November, the Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change (CABC) has been tracking conversations on Twitter to get an idea of main themes and emerging trends. According to their analysis, the ANC and the EFF are the only two parties to receive mentions within the top 50 words used
Jacob Zuma and his supporters have wrapped their campaign around one big misrepresentation, which they unashamedly put into the public discourse at every opportunity: That the former president has done nothing wrong and is being persecuted for political purposes. Tentacles of disinformation have been developed around the big lie to strangle the truth. Read
Supporters of former president Jacob Zuma, ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule and others in their faction – known as radical economic transformation (RET) forces – have come out in support of journalist Piet Rampedi and Independent Media. Read full article
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A network of inauthentic accounts is twisting policy for its misinformation machine. read full article
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