10 October 2021, Daily Maverick, Steve Swart
Furthermore, while presenting and consuming only “vital information” may appear beneficial in a hurried age where people are drowning in information, this approach to knowledge management carries the risk of oversimplification. This is what has happened in a further piece, published in Daily Maverick on 19 September 2021. The opinion piece, “Disinformation in the time of Covid-19: Vaccines and political parties”, penned by Media Monitoring Africa, unfortunately, falls into the burgeoning trap of trivialising dissimilar views as “disinformation”.