Fact-checking only helps if it reaches people before they have made up their minds.
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South Africa has no comprehensive national media literacy programme. Often it comes down to individual teachers and schools to make learners more media literate.
The full benefits of digital democracy are being thwarted by digital exclusion that is driven by the high cost of data.
Concern at the role of fake sites in influencing South African public opinion has been growing over time.
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Professor and Chair, Department of Journalism, Stellenbosch University
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Lecturer in Journalism and Global Communication, University of Sheffield; Independent Social Research Foundation
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Research Fellow, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
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Senior Research Fellow, Horn of Africa and Southern Africa, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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Researcher, University of St.Gallen