21 May 2024, William Bird and Thandi Smith, News24
We know because for the last few months, we have been carefully archiving the online advertisements created by the registered parties across Meta (including Facebook and Instagram) and Google platforms. You can see them and other data relating to how much parties have been spending on the Political Advert Repository (PADRE)
There are already thousands of adverts, so to help, Media Monitoring Africa has launched a simple WhatsApp AI bot called AdCompare to help you spot the real from the rubbish.