WEEKLY TRENDS IN SOUTH AFRICA OP-ED Disinformation in a time of Covid-19: Local government elections 2021 6 min 0 By William Bird and Nomshado Lubisi
WEEKLY TRENDS IN SOUTH AFRICA OP-ED Disinformation in a time of Covid-19: A historic partnership ahead of the municipal elections 6 min 0 By William Bird and Nomshado Lubisi
MAVERICK CITIZEN: VACCINATE THE PEOPLE ‘Umshanguzo we Corona’: The highs and lows of getting a Covid-19 vaccination in Soweto 7 min 0 By Tshabalira Lebakeng
CORONAVIRUS GLOBAL UPDATE Facebook to require masks for all employees; South Africa registers 5,575 new cases 6 min 0 By Bloomberg
EXCERPT Facebook’s role in the genocide in Myanmar, as revealed in the new book ‘An Ugly Truth’ 7 min 0 By The Reading List
OP-ED Colonisation by algorithms: The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the ethical use of predictive analytics 5 min 0 By Saurabh Sinha and Sarah Mosoetsa
PODCAST REVIEW This week we’re listening to: The fine line between our online persona and real-life character 5 min 0 By Sarah Hoek
Africa From Russia, with ‘love’: Inauthentic Facebook assets promoted Russian interests in Sudan 10 min 0 By Tessa Knight for DFRLab
State of America All the world’s a stage: What happens when Donald Trump misses his exit cue? 7 min 2 By J Brooks Spector
OP-ED To WhatsApp, or not to WhatsApp: Safeguard your data — the law is on your side 6 min 0 By Sizwe Snail ka Mtuze and Stephen Newman
OP-ED Disinformation in a time of Covid-19: What’s in a definition? 9 min 0 By Thandi Smith and William Bird
OP-ED Disinformation in a time of Covid-19: A year on, here’s the 411 on what we have learnt about disinformation 7 min 0 By William Bird and Thandi Smith
Maverick Life Humans of the internet: How do we belong on social media? 6 min 0 By Catherine Del Monte
DFRLAB Prominent Ugandan news websites implicated in government-aligned social media campaign 8 min 0 By Tessa Knight for DFRLab
OP-ED Disinformation in a time of Covid-19: Weekly trends in South Africa 5 min 0 By William Bird and Thandi Smith
DFRLab: Explainer Facebook removed planted content linked to Ugandan government following an investigation 9 min 0 By Tessa Knight for DFRLab
WEB OF LIES (PART ONE) Anatomy of a disinformation campaign: The who, what and why of deliberate falsehoods on Twitter 7 min 1 By Liesl Pretorius for Africa Check
CIVIL SOCIETY WATCH 8-14 FEB The week in civil society: a focus on vaccine progress, oversight at Facebook and the secret power of pulses 5 min 0 By Christi Nortier
JOURNALISM & ETHICS SA media credibility inquiry recommends taxing Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google 6 min 1 By Ferial Haffajee
