The Cape Argus deactivated its Facebook page this week after a barrage of racists comments relating to the most recent student protests at the University of Cape Town. “We regard these comme... Read more
We often hear advice on the way bloggers and page owners should treat their followers, but not much has been written about how followers should behave. Many large news sites and websites hav... Read more
OPINION: A lot has been said about the decision by News24 to shut down their comments sections. But very little is being said about the gross inaccuracies that emanate from citizen journalis... Read more
I am all in faviour of President Jacob Zuma continuing his sniping campaign against whites and blaming everything on apartheid, says Chris Moerdyk. Not that I agree with him, heaven forbid.... Read more
Stephen Pritchard, the Readers’ Editor of The Observer, UK, has seen the progression from readers writing letters to the editor to them posting their comments online. He talks to Ashle... Read more
Temperature of online comments significantly higher – new report
Online abuse and trolling is on the increase. And journalists are among the victims. A new report on online commentary by the WAN-IFRA’s World Editors Forum, the 2016 Global Online Com... Read more