13 June 2024, The Media Online, Reporter Media Monitoring Africa, in partnership with the New Economy Hub and SANEF, is hosting The Green Voices Symposium. This engaging event serves as a platform for in-depth discussions on the nuances of ethical climate change reporting. Centred on the principles ...
12 May 2024, William Bird and Nomshado Nkosinkulu, Daily Maverick Media and information literacy has been a staple programme of Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) for 26 years, but it has tended to focus on children being equipped with critical media and digital literacy skills (read more about it h...
11 May 2024, Myles Illidge, My Broad Band Under the regulations proposed, ISPs could face fines up to R750,000 and five years in prison for failing to notify the FPB within 30 days of becoming aware that their services were used to spread disinformation or misinformation. It first publishe...
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6 June 2024, Africa Center For Strategic Studies Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), a media and human rights watchdog] found that a vast majority—68 percent—of 200 pieces of content reported through the Real411 portal that were ultimately found to be disinformation came from X. Read full artic...
5 June 2024, Babalo Ndenze, Eye Witness JOHANNESBURG – Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) has ranked political parties that received the most media coverage during the elections, with the African National Congress (ANC) and uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party topping the list. Read full article...
4 June 2024, News24, Muhammad Hussain In a report by Media Monitoring Africa, presented to the IEC on 31 May, X (Twitter) was the platform with the most instances of content found to be disinformation, at 68% of all disinformation complaints. TikTok was in second, with 15%. William Bird,...
3 June 2024, Wired, Vittoria Elliott “We’ve seen clear campaigns to undermine the [election commission],” says William Bird, director of Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), a media and human rights watchdog. “It’s been driven in no small part by [Jacob] Zuma’s daughter.” In the days...
3 June 2024, Media Monitoring Africa Media Monitoring Africa has handed its interim report of the initial findings and trends that were tracked through Real411 during the current election period in the 2024 general elections in South Africa over to the IEC. Read full article...