27 October 2021, News24, The Independent Electoral Commission and Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) have joined hands with major social media platforms to fight the spread of disinformation. The partnership will start in the run up to, during and beyond the November 1, municipal elections. The commissio...
25 October 2021, Daily Maverick, William Bird and Nomshado Lubisi The Independent Electoral Commission and Media Monitoring Africa have joined hands with major social media platforms to fight the spread of disinformation in the 1 November municipal elections. Read full article...
10 October 2021, Daily Maverick, Steve Swart Furthermore, while presenting and consuming only “vital information” may appear beneficial in a hurried age where people are drowning in information, this approach to knowledge management carries the risk of oversimplification. This is what has hap...
28 September 2021, Politics Web, Mark Routree Real411, the disinformation monitoring body run by Media Monitoring Africa, has assessed the evidence (https://www.real411.co.za/complaints-view/jrxy6cj6) and indicated that a decision from the IEC is now required. Read full article...
26 September 2021, Daily Maverick, William Bird and Nomshado Lubisi William Bird is director of Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) and Nomshado Lubisi is communications manager at MMA, a partner in the 411 platform to counter disinformation. Read full article...
14 September 2021, Eyewitness, Lauren Isaacs The South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef), in partnership with Media Monitoring Africa, is on Tuesday afternoon discussing how to deal with misinformation and disinformation during elections season. Media Monitoring Africa’s Thandi Smi...
Media Release 14 September 2021 Media Coverage and Disinformation in the run up to the elections JOHANNESBURG, 14 September 2021– Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) launched their 2021 Local Government Elections Media Monitoring and Disinformation project. With the local government elections n...
9 September 2021, News24 Disinformation destroys democracy and poses a clear threat to free and fair elections. William Bird and Thandi Smith break down tips to combat mis and disinformation. With the local government elections now set to go ahead on 1 November 2021, we can expect the political...
8 September 2021, Daily Maverick, Glenda Dabiels Fifth, another superbusy civil society organisation, Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), does constant research on media, misinformation and gender. About women’s voices, or lack thereof, in the media, MMA seems to consistently find that women represent ...