Media Monitoring Africa(MMA) says there’s a need for the establishment of a multi stakeholder body that will deal with social media disinformation. The MMA says social media platforms were widely used by instigators of the July 2021 unrest that engulfed Kwa-Zulu Natal and Gauteng. The organisation says some members of the public used social media to post inflammatory statements that fuelled the situation. The Human Rights Commission hearings into the Gauteng leg of the July unrest this week heard how Duduzane Zuma, the son of former president Jacob Zuma, used the social media platform to alleg…

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