Media Monitoring Africa, a leading media research organisation in Africa, today launched the second in a series of reports analysing the coverage of the 2019 National Elections in South Africa. You can find the full report here. 5 days ago, South Africans went to the polls to cast their ballot in th...
Media Monitoring Africa, a leading media research organisation in Africa, today launched the first interim report analysing the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC)’s coverage of the 2019 National and Provincial Elections in South Africa. You can find the full report here. Elections are a...
7 May 2019, Daily Maverick, Ferial Haffajee with the Dossier Centre William Bird of Media Monitoring Africa, which set up a partnership with the Independent Electoral Commission to monitor disinformation, says:8 “There was not much of a co-ordinated effort. The ANC was trying something, but it was...
6 May 2019, The Citizen, Kaunda Selisho While the IEC and Media Monitoring Africa do their best to combat election-related disinformation, a list that has been hailed as a leaked official list of Ramaphosa’s planned sixth cabinet is doing the rounds on social media. Read the full article...
6 May 2019, The Citizen, Kaunda Selisho While the IEC and Media Monitoring Africa do their best to combat election-related disinformation, a list that has been hailed as a leaked official list of Ramaphosa’s planned sixth cabinet is doing the rounds on social media. Read the full article...
2 May 2019, IOL, Noni Mokati “We are doing this in partnership with them and Media Monitoring Africa. We are hoping to learn not just for South Africa or SADC alone but for the whole world becasue a lot of countries either have legislation or they shut down the social platforms. We don’t...
30 April 2019, eNCA The platform which was created in partnership with Media Monitoring Africa aims to combat the information that unfairly influences the elections. Read the full article...
29 April 2019, News24, Juniour Khumalo Media Monitoring Africa director William Bird said, “Without the skills and techniques to distinguish real information from disinformation, the likelihood of the public being misled is increasing. While some efforts to build critical digital literacy skills h...
26 April 2019, The Media Online, Glenda Nevill There is clear evidence to suggest that this is a very real possibility, reckons Media Monitoring Africa’s William Bird. “We saw it in the US, the Brazilian and Kenyan elections; it would be foolish to think that the threat isn’t very real here.â€...