13 November 2025, ITWeb, Nicola Mawson
Ahead of last year’s elections – which saw the ANC lose its majority for the first time in three decades – Google and Meta partnered with Africa Check and Media Monitoring Africa to tackle election misinformation.
Google also pledged to prioritise high-quality search results linking to IEC sites, remove policy-violating YouTube content through AI and human review, and make ads more transparent by disclosing their funders.