28 November 2021, William Bird, Daily Maverick Week 40: Acting on disinformation peddlers Disinformation spreads incredibly fast, and much faster than truth. It destroys democracy and causes public harm – and does so super speedily and efficiently. There are a number of evolving strategies, man...
14 November 2021, Daily Maverick,William Bird and Nomshado Lubisi Content that shocks or horrifies or makes us feel anxious or fearful is often used by disinformers. This week we look at a recent example from the Real411 system to show how our emotional responses are used to cloud rational thought a...
14 November 2021, Nomshado Lubisi and William Bird, Daily Maverick Content that shocks or horrifies or makes us feel anxious or fearful is often used by disinformers. This week we look at a recent example from the Real411 system to show how our emotional responses are used to cloud rational thought ...
7 November 2021, Daily Maverick, William Bird and Nomshado This week we focus on the role of our media in an election period, including some strengths and some weaknesses, in order to highlight how important the media is to free and fair elections. Read full article...
1 November 2021, MSN News, William Bird and Nomshado Lubisi Last week we focused on the significance and importance of the partnership with the social media platforms. This week, as we vote in the local government elections, we look at the trends over the past two weeks. Real411 has been receiving c...
24 October 2021, Allafrica, 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. Week 35: The significance of partnerships Las...
10 October 2021, Daily Maverick, William Bird and Nomshado Lubisi Since March 2020, Real411 has received complaints about a range of digital harms. Most were related to mis- and disinformation about Covid-19. This shifted to vaccines, and it is now shifting to the local government elections. ...
6 October 2021, University of Cape Town, Natalie Simon “While this was taking place, we had our dialogue facilitators online, trying to calm things down. We were also reporting the incendiary accounts to Twitter to get them shut down, through Media Monitoring Africa’s Real411,” he says. Read ...
5 October 2021, News24, Marvin Charles and Nicole McCain The GOOD party reported Zille to an independent watchdog, the Real411, a disinformation monitoring body run by Media Monitoring Africa, after she shared a doctored video of the former SA rugby coach and GOOD’s mayoral candidate for the D...