07 June 2021, Yiba, News desk Currently the Agape Youth Movement is rolling out an online life skills programme that learners attend over a period of 18 days. Learners receive training on leadership skills, communication skills, bullying, gender-based violence (GBV) and navigating online spaces safe...
06 June 2021, EWN, Veronica Mokhoali Back home media monitoring Africa’s director William Bird said the government’s response was irrational. The move has also attracted international condemnation from amnesty international which highlighted the importance of freedom of speech for Nigerians. Rea...
06 June 2021, Daily Maverick, Thandi Smith and William Bird This week we look at some of the anti-vaccine complaints recently received. A common approach for anti-vaxxers is to stress how vaccines won’t work or how they have deadly side effects. This week, two of these examples were on show. Read ...
04 June 2021, IOL, Loyiso Sidimba The SOS Support Public Broadcasting Coalition and Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) have backed the public broadcaster. ”In broad terms, the draft regulations are supportive of our position on ’must carry’, which can be summarised as: Must carry, must pay,” the ...
01 June 2021, William Bird and Thandi Smith The Real411 platform has been receiving complaints related to disinformation, hate speech, incitement to violence and harassment of journalists since March 2020. Over the past week or two, we have received a number of questions about how Real411 works, wha...
26 May 2021, EWN More than one year into the pandemic and pockets of fake news and disinformation continue to hamper efforts to effectively deal with COVID-19. Organisations such as Media Monitoring Africa and the Real411 have been used to mitigate the spread of disinformation. MMA director Will...
23 May 2021, Daily Maverick, Thandi Smith and William Bird The Real411 platform has been receiving complaints related to disinformation, hate speech, incitement to violence and harassment of journalists, since March 2020. Since then, the platform has received just under 1,400 complaints, the majorit...
22 May 2021, EWN, Kaylynn Palm The IEC was also fighting back against disinformation through a mobile application which is expected to be launched at the end of May, in partnership with Media Monitoring Africa. This would allow the public to report and verify election information. Read the full arti...
16 May 2021, Daily Maverick, Thandi Smith and William Bird All in all, while we have a few dominant parties, we have many factions and hundreds of reasons why they will try to push their interests, meaning the potential for disinformation is likely from multiple sources, without even considering pos...