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Social media fragmentation raises disinformation risks

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INT

One driving factor of this risk is that in 2024 over 4 billion people -- around half the world's population -- will be able to vote in elections. These polls will take place at a…

Scrutiny to rise as online US influencer market booms

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US

Influencer marketing has become mainstream within a changing digital advertising landscape where social media and e-commerce are converging, raising consumer protection questions…

AI's promise and pitfalls will affect key domains

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AI promises to drive economic efficiencies across sectors, improve the delivery of critical services such as healthcare, democratise access to knowledge and skills, and tighten…

US digital advertising industry is set to transform

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US

Influencer marketing is part of the new US digital advertising landscape as the industry looks to cut through the proliferation of digital media while facing growing privacy…

Online disinformation is greater risk for older users

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INT

The growing numbers of senior citizens in the United States, their rapidly increasing adoption of social media and their high levels of voter turnout make their vulnerability to…

Global South tightens social media grip amid protests

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Civil society actors routinely use social media to spread content that fuels anti-government sentiment, to organise demonstrations and to document and amplify protest actions…

Military aims to monopolise media in Egypt

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EGYPT

Tahrir News suggested that the vanished archives related to the 2011 uprising, according to BBC Monitoring. Under President Abdel Fatah el-Sisi, press freedom has decreased, with…

South Africa’s media terrain faces diverging fortunes

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SOUTH AFRICA

Manyi, a Zuma ally, bought the Gupta-owned The New Age newspaper and TV news channel ANN7 in August in a wholly vendor-financed deal. In recent years, The New Age and ANN7 have…

Autocratic rulers try diverse controls on social media

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INTERNATIONAL

Social media controls in closed political systems.

Student riots to rock South Africa political landscape

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SOUTH AFRICA

Protests against the fee increases, which disproportionately hurt poor, mostly black students, are occurring across the country. The most dramatic incident occurred on October 21…