27 July 2020, Daily Maverick, William Bird and Thandi Smith The Real411 platform accepts complaints related to a variety of digital offences, including hate speech, incitement, harassment of journalists and disinformation. The platform has been fully operational since 22 March 2020, and since then...
20 July 2020, Daily Maverick, William Bird and Thandi Smith The Real411 platform accepts complaints related to a variety of digital offences, including hate speech, incitement, harassment of journalists and disinformation. The platform has been fully operational since 22 March 2020, and since, we ...
23 April 2020, Business Day, William Bird and Avani Singh If people are unable to make informed decisions, not only are they at risk, but the very basis for a democratic state is threatened. It was for this reason that Media Monitoring Africa, together with a range of partner organisations, launched...
13 July 2020, Daily Maverick, William Bird and Thandi Smith The Real411 platform accepts complaints related to a variety of digital offences, including hate speech, incitement, harassment of journalists, and disinformation. The platform has been fully operational since 22 March, 2020, and since th...
6 July 2020, Daily Maverick, Thandi Smith & William Bird The Real411 platform accepts complaints related to a variety of digital offences, including hate speech, incitement, harassment of journalists, and disinformation. The platform has been fully operational since 22 March 2020, and since th...
28 June 2020, Tshepiso Moche, SABC News People can combat digital disinformation shared on WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter by reporting the sharing of such information on the Real411 website. Complaints from the Real411 site ranges from misinformation suggesting that COVID-19 doesn’t exist to posts...
8 June 2020, Daily Maverick, William Bird & Thandi Smith Media Monitoring Africa provides a weekly look into some of the complaints received, commenting on some of the interesting, dangerous, and sometimes bizarre complaints. This week, we take a look at complaints received between 25 and 31 May...
6 June 2020, Sowetan Live, Unathi Nkanjeni Director of Media Monitoring Africa William Bird told TshisaLIVE the post from Leanne was concerning and could discredit her credibility. “It’s a very disappointing thing to see when a respected news presenter, someone who is known to bring us news,...
4 May 2020, The Citizen, Citizen Reporter William Bird, director of Media Monitoring Africa, said there had been a significant spike in fake news and conspiracy theories since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. “This kind of thing is increasing. That specific complaint [about the contaminated ...