This week’s Mis/Disinformation report looks into social media conversations from two platforms – Facebook over the last month and Twitter over the last week. Conversations relative to the vaccine seem to be largely driven by mistrust, misinformation, and fear. Read full report
This week’s Mis/Disinformation report looks into social media conversation driven by: thepotential of a 5th wave, government changes to policies around isolation and movement rules,the vaccination rate, and a newly approved vaccine. Read full report
This week’s Mis/Disinformation report looks into social media conversation driven by: newchanges in mandates, questions around vaccine effectiveness and general hesitancy. Read full report
This week’s Mis/Disinformation report looks into social media conversation driven by:controversies around vaccine mandates and rhetoric that attempts to deter people from gettingvaccinated. Read full report
This Vaccine Mis/Disinformation report looks into the last four weeks of social mediaconversations. These were driven by: conspiracy theories, ways to apparently cleanse oneselfof the vaccine, vaccine mandate controversies, and questions about the vaccine’s effectiveness. Read full report
This Vaccine Mis/Disinformation report looks into the last four weeks of social mediaconversations. These were driven by: claims of severe vaccine injuries and/or deaths, newresearch related to side-effects, frustrations due to vaccine mandates, erosion of public trust,miseducation and confusion. Read full report
This is the final in a series of reports produced by the Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change (CABC) and the Auwal Socio-Economic Research Institute (ASRI), who tracked election conversation trends on social media. The data is sourced fromTwitter and is publicly available in real time. The analysis includes a process of verifying a random...
This week’s Vaccine Mis/Disinformation report focuses on the social media conversations drivenby Ramaphosa’s positive COVID-19 test result, vaccine hesitancy, vaccine skepticism,frustrations related to inequality, and uncertainty regarding the Omicron variant. Read full report
This week’s Vaccine Mis/Disinformation report focuses on the social media conversations drivenby the new Omicron variant, resistance against vaccine mandates, fear and misinformation. Read full article
Camaren Peter, PhD, Executive Director of the Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change (CABC) and Ebrahim Fakir , Director of Programmes at the Auwal Socio Economic Research Institute (ASRI) delve into how social media was used during the South African Local Government Elections 2021 as well as engage in a broader discussion the role of...
