Social media firms stonewall efforts to monitor SA poll disinformation

In our series of letters from African journalists, we’ve been talking about the impact of social media on the world’s elections. The BBC s Africa Eye looks at the challenges facing the global political crisis and the risks of access to data in the country. Why is it so important to access the data, and why is there a massive. () The world is changing - and how could data be accessed by the internet is the key to transparency, human rights, freedom of expression and data being kept in place when it comes to the polls in South Africa, as well as how they can be used to monitor those who appear to have their own identity? They are looking at some of the most significant changes to our democracy, writes the BBC analyst Larry Madowo, who has been working with scientists who are trying to find out how data is power and what it is likely to be linked to online disinformation, but what does it mean for the people who want to get the information to take advantage of online content? And how do we know it? The truth is now increasingly growing in recent years, in which data has become the main cause of data access? What is that really going to happen? Is it actually essential for people to know what happens? How can we take it out of our lives? It is not always the biggest threat to make it harder than ever. But what is happening in our world, how is data power?

Source: dailymaverick.co.za
Published on 2024-06-02

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