Under Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki, the ANC government projected a leadership culture that was professional, diplomatic, disciplined and devoted to public service. They were sincere about improving the lives of South Africans. But President Cyril Ramaphosa inherited a fractious and dysfunctional ANC, one that had become nearly wholly compromised by the project of State...
A network of social media accounts is abusing so-called radical economic transformation (RET) policy to peddle misinformation and create racial divisions on Read full article
A network of inauthentic accounts is twisting policy for its misinformation machine. read full article
CABC found 51 ‘suspicious’ accounts perpetuating RET narratives, and put them through their internal analysing and visualisation tools. Read full article
A group of South African social activists has gained international recognition for two public campaigns against Gender Based Violence (GBV) and the use of bots to distort social media conversations. The Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change (CABC) is a non-profit organisation based at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business and...
Social media is making us more unhappy, less safe, and in some cases just stupider. This while the power of these websites grows unstoppably: Facebook now has more adherents than Christianity. In this episode we’re taking on just two aspects of the social media problem: the way it spreads fake news, and the vicious nature...
We are happy to announce the winners for CICLOPE Africa 2021! After three rounds of judging in which the Executive Jury discussed the winning entries, top producers and creatives chose the most well-crafted commercials, short films and music videos in the region. One piece won a Grand Prix: Shelflife – “Stüssy x Nike”, directed by Marc Sidelsky and produced by Little League Fil link to...
As the global fight against Covid-19 intensifies, bot accounts continue to spread countless conspiracy theories about the virus – putting people’s lives on the line by destroying trust in vaccines. Find out how to spot and stop these accounts here >
Press release April 13 2020 CABC short film receives international recognition A new Public Service Announcement which uses cutting edge movie-making technology to warn social media users about bots spreading online conspiracy theories has been published on Shots, a platform designed to showcase cutting-edge international creativity. Shots selects only the most creatively excellent work including...
MEDIA RELEASE 09 April 2020 ISSUED BY: Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change / #careZA A unique peek into how South Africans are responding to the Covid-19 crisis on social media is revealing the dynamics of social cohesion across the country. Cutting edge social media analytics are being used to weed out bizarre examples of mis-information,...
