31 March 2020, All Africa, Rebecca Davis “We have a scenario that is a perfect storm for mis- and disinformation,” Media Monitoring Africa director William Bird told Daily Maverick. “You have fear, low levels of general knowledge of the virus itself, of public health in general, of...
26 March 2020, Lesley Stones The team at Media Monitor Africa and its director William Bird probably don’t know whether to laugh or cry at this social media madness or the fake facts published in the formal media. But they’ve taken action by relaunching their fake news detection service, the Rea...
24 March 2020, The Media Online, Reporter Government should ensure that the regulations were strictly limited to the pandemic. As such, SANEF welcomed the launch of the REAL411 platform by Media Monitoring Africa, “which is a good response to the problem in normal times. We note that this is one...
19 March 2020, 702, Eusebius McKaiser William Bird on the emergency regulations announced by the government regarding social media activity. Listen to the interview here...
Media Monitoring Africa, and the South African Electoral Commission launched a world first initiative that is the Digital Disinformation Complaints (DDC) process to govern and engage on the issue of disinformation during the election period. In order to act on disinformation, the IEC is using the Re...
MMA (Media Monitoring Africa) and the IEC launched a world first for the South African 2019 elections period – the digital disinformation complaints process on Monday 1 April. Disinformation, misinformation and ‘fake news’ during election periods is a scourge that has affected the fairne...