09 May 2021, Daily Maverick, Thandi Smith and William Bird In practical terms, this seeks to coordinate all the work to enable a more unified national response. Real411 is one source of information, but Unicef, AIRA, the Red Cross and the health department have well-established tools to harvest info...

02 May 2021, Daily Maverick, Thandi Smith and William Bird So this 3 May, get out there, take out a subscription, hold the media accountable and fight disinformation: every small step to protect our democracy makes it that much easier to protect (and less likely that disinformation will spread), ma...

18 April 2021, Daily Maverick, Thandi Smith and William Bird Through Real411, Media Monitoring Africa has been tracking disinformation trends on digital platforms since March 2020. The platform has received just over 1,350 complaints (all complaints are submitted to the platform by public users). ...

11 April 2021, Daily Maverick, William Bird and Thandi Smith Through Real411, Media Monitoring Africa has been tracking disinformation trends on digital platforms since the end of March 2020. For Real411, we are focusing on combating anti-vaccine content, and we are also gearing up for local elec...

28 March 2021, Daily Maverick, Thandi Smith and William Bird Through Real411, Media Monitoring Africa has been tracking disinformation trends on digital platforms since the end of March 2020. Last week we had the good fortune to talk about disinformation at the South African Internet Governance F...

23 March 2021, EWN, Graig-Lee-Smith Organisations such as Media Monitoring Africa and the Real411 have been used to mitigate the spread of disinformation. Director William Bird said that some of the key trends over the last year included unproven theories, such as that COVID-19 didn’t really e...

22 March 2021, Daily Maverick, Thandi Smith and William Bird Through Real411, Media Monitoring Africa has been tracking disinformation trends on digital platforms since the end of March 2020. Using the Real411 platform, we have analysed disinformation trends that have largely focused on Covid-19....

14 March 2021, Daily Maverick, Thandi Smith and William Bird Through the Real411 platform, Media Monitoring Africa has been tracking disinformation trends on digital platforms since the end of March 2020. Using the Real411 platform, we have analysed disinformation trends that have largely focus...

07 March 2021, Daily Maverick, Thandi Smith and William Bird Through Real411, Media Monitoring Africa has been tracking disinformation trends on digital platforms since the end of March 2020. Using the Real411 platform we have analysed disinformation trends that have largely focused on Covid-19...