Does the mass media need to dumb down?
There was a time, decades ago, when the rule of thumb for mass media in South Africa was to produce ...
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Fake news: The internet has turned an age-old problem into a new threat
The year 2016 will go down in history as the year in which fake news really took centre stage. It ...
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How to avoid being ammo in the ANC succession propaganda war
No sooner had veteran journalist and columnist Max du Preez warned South Africa’s media against becoming tools in the African ...
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Facebook and the Fourth Estate
Facebook is a monopolistic behemoth. Like the Achaemenid Persian Empire that ruled over a greater percentage of the world’s population ...
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Why do we fall for fake news?
In recent weeks, the amount of online fake news that circulated during the final months of the US presidential race ...
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Email isn’t dead – and it’s helping to keep newspapers alive
Just over a year ago, Stewart Butterfield – who invented the rapidly growing message app Slack – joined the list ...
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