In a significant policy shift, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp, has announced the termination of its third-party fact-checking program in…
Social media and the London riots: The good and the ugly
Much attention has been given to the negative use of social media during the recent wave of riots which spread through cities across the…
DA leader addresses Twitter critics
Helen Zille, leader of South Africa’s largest opposition party, has responded to a recent spat between herself, officials from her party, and South African…
Google Realtime Search (kind of) makes a comeback with Google+
Google’s Realtime Search function is set to make a comeback, but with no tweets or Facebook status updates. It will, instead, be limited to…
The genie is out of the bottle, and he’s tweeting now
Six weeks ago I wrote a piece for one of South Africa’s Sunday papers, the Sunday Times, on the role that Twitter plays in…
