Guest : Prof Camaren Peter | Associate Professor, Allan Gray Centre for Values-Based
                                                Leadership

The Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change, at UCT has launched a six-month
project that will use social media analytics and advocacy to combat the spread of
misinformation about the coronavirus in South Africa and beyond.
The project aims to combat the spread of fake news about the COVID-19.
Over the next six months, the team of 26 – among them psychologists, criminologists
and sustainability experts – plan to use social media analytics to track and counter the
spread of fake news and polarising rhetoric about COVID-19 in South Africa and other
parts of Africa, as well as monitor related incidences of social unrest and collective
violence.
These findings will be publicly available as well as shared with government in the form
of daily, weekly and thematic reports.