The Honest Truth: An interview with Praveen Naidoo
Smile FM, The Honest Truth. An interview with Praveen Naidoo a media manager for The Center for Analytics & Behavioural Change.
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Disinformation, misinformation and barefaced lies: The online war of words in the Battle of Nkandla
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 …
The Tembisa 10 and RET forces
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
Confuse and Divide: tracking a network that twists the truth
CABC MEDIA RELEASE Confuse and Divide: tracking a network that twists the truth Research by the CABC has uncovered an organised network of social media accounts posing as promoters of Radical Economic Transformation policy to peddle misinformation and social division. The network distributes high volumes of tweets using the cover of RET policy – but …
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RET’s digital war of words: The fake online network hijacking the Twittersphere
A network of inauthentic accounts is twisting policy for its misinformation machine. read full article
The RET Twitter campaign’s echoes of Bell Pottinger
CABC found 51 ‘suspicious’ accounts perpetuating RET narratives, and put them through their internal analysing and visualisation tools. Read full article
Pillars of misinformation: A closer look at the RET network
A network of social media accounts is abusing so-called radical economic transformation (RET) policy to peddle misinformation and create racial divisions on Read full article
ANC must reclaim ethical high ground and undergo total reformation of its leadership culture if it wants us back | Daily Maverick
Under Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki, the ANC government projected a leadership culture that was professional, diplomatic, disciplined and devoted to public service. They were sincere about improving the lives of South Africans. But President Cyril Ramaphosa inherited a fractious and dysfunctional ANC, one that had become nearly wholly compromised by the project of State …
Local government elections wrap up report
This is the final in a series of reports produced by the Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change (CABC) and the Auwal Socio-Economic Research Institute (ASRI), who tracked election conversation trends on social media. The data is sourced from Twitter and is publicly available in real time. The analysis includes a process of verifying a …
State capture: Mpofu and the bid to bamboozle the public
In an era of post-truth “alternative facts”, smoke and mirrors tactics have become the new currency of political gamesmanship Read full article
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