4 June 2024, News24, Muhammad Hussain
In a report by Media Monitoring Africa, presented to the IEC on 31 May, X (Twitter) was the platform with the most instances of content found to be disinformation, at 68% of all disinformation complaints.
TikTok was in second, with 15%.
William Bird, the director of MMA, told News24 that, when alerted to these disinformation posts, other platforms, including Meta and TikTok, took action, while “X has done nothing”.
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Two of the main trends MMA noticed were false information regarding election results, and information intended to undermine the credibility of the IEC and its commissioners.
The MMA report mentioned:
Of grave concern was that instances of this were created through official social media channels of political parties or representatives.