Exposed: How corporates are funding fake news
Some of South Africa’s biggest banks, insurance companies and car manufacturers have been caught advertising on fake news websites. A...
Jean Le Roux
William Bird: The upside to “fake news”
“Fake news”. It’s a poor term, and much like an advertisement for penis extensions, its promises to deliver are inevitably...
Programmatic Advertising
As we've highlighted elsewhere on this site, disinformation websites monetise their traffic using various means, including cryptojacking and direct advertising....
Adriaan Basson: The high price of fake news
Have you ever clicked on a story in your Facebook timeline that you knew wasn’t true? I have. "Pope Francis...
Natasha Ndlebe: When ‘fake news’ became the word of the year
Last year, the Collins Dictionary named "fake news" as the word of the year. The phrase famously gained prominence with...
Breaking news…all the way from Nigeria
A misinformation network, masquerading as a group of South African “news” sites, has been traced to a West African businessman...
Reggy Moalusi: Breaking news, fingers first
Editing a daily newspaper in the digital age of video, WhatsApp, Twitter, and to some extent Instagram, has its exhilarations...
