10 November 2024, The Citizen, Molefe Seeletsa The bill, however, faced significant opposition from civil society organisations, including Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), the South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef), and AfriForum, as well as from major broadcasters like MultiChoice and eTV.Re...
1 August 2024, Melody Emmett, Businesslive Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) has unveiled an AI tool (iiiafrica.org) that can identify and track violence-inciting elements online and on social media. It aims to check and temper the spread of such danger quickly and in line with human rights such as free...
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...
20 February 2024, Newsbreak By Newsbreak Producer Hoosen Ebrahim – The role of the media during elections is vital to ensure fair and equal representation of all political parties contesting this year. That’s according to the Director at Media Monitoring Africa, William Bird. He says tha...
14 February 2024, Brand South Africa, Press Release Social media platforms are asked to work with the South African news media to co-create a conducive information environment for the upcoming elections. The aim is to reduce the potential for disinformation, harassment, and hate speech that could ha...
Bird said there seemed to be no incentive to fund the SABC. “There’s no plan, no thought of ‘this is how we’re going to do it’, and it defies logic unless there are some non-public interest ends at play.” He said the bill made him think of the movie Blast from the Past, in which a [&hel...
Bird said there seemed to be no incentive to fund the SABC. “There’s no plan, no thought of ‘this is how we’re going to do it’, and it defies logic unless there are some non-public interest ends at play.” He said the bill made him think of the movie Blast from the Past, in which a [&hel...
Prioritising children’s voices is essential. Principals and deputy principals play an indispensable role in the effective functioning of schools. They are responsible for setting the school’s vision, creating a conducive learning environment, and overseeing the overall management of acad...
ALWAYS INCLUDE CHILDREN’S VOICES IN HEALTH ISSUES INVOLVING THEM Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) gives a Missed Opportunity[1] to Cape Argus for an article that fails to access children when reporting the issue of mental health treatment for children and adolescents in the Western Cape. The article ...