National Press Freedom Day: South Africa gets the thumbs up
22nd Oct 2020
19 October 2020, 702, Tlou Legodi William Bird is the director at Media Monitoring Africa and joins The Midday Report on the line. “In South
Disinformation in a time of Covid-19: Weekly Trends in South Africa
20th Oct 2020
18 October 2020, Daily Maverick, Thandi Smith & William Bird Through Real411, Media Monitoring Africa has been tracking disinformation trends on digital platforms since the
Deepfakes, SA media ethics & more: free webinars to make sense of it all
14th Oct 2020
13 October 2020, TimesLIVE Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), the watchdog organisation that promotes ethical and fair journalism, this month presents its Media Freedom Festival, a series of
Public Invite: Media Freedom Festival 2020
14th Oct 2020
Media Freedom Festival is an action-packed series of events that serve as an opportunity for us to ponder, probe and interrogate some of the key
Disinformation in a time of Covid-19: Weekly Trends in SA
12th Oct 2020
12 October 2020, Daily Maverick, Thandi Smith and William Bird Media Monitoring Africa has been tracking disinformation trends on digital platforms since the end of
‘Magashule was reliably informed of arrest warrant, there’s no ANC conspiracy’
12th Oct 2020
08 October 2020, CAPETALK, Qama Qukula Meanwhile, William Bird, the director of Media Monitoring Africa, has warned against the spread of disinformation. He says disinformation
Twitter war between EFF and Trevor Manuel heads to SCA
6th Oct 2020
06 October 2020, IOL, Bongani Nkosi This is the view of the Joburg-based Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) organisation, which has been admitted as amicus curiae
Disinformation in a time of Covid-19: Weekly Trends in South Africa
6th Oct 2020
04 October 2020, Daily Maverick, Thandi Smith and William Bird Through Real411, Media Monitoring Africa has been tracking disinformation trends on digital platforms since the
Why accused child sex offenders should not be named
30th Sep 2020
29 September 2020, CAPETALK, Barbara Friedman William Bird of Media Monitoring Africa talks to Lester Kiewit about the dangers of naming child sex offenders as
CHILDREN, MEDIA AND THE LAW: A GUIDE FOR THE MEDIA BY MMA
30th Sep 2020
Children make up 34% of our population, which translates to around 19.7 million people under the age of 18.1 Children are afforded a special place