ALT Advisory’s Avani Singh presented during Media Freedom Week, organised by Media Monitoring Africa, on a panel titled ‘Bots, social media and elections’. The panel focused on various topics, including the different regulatory approaches globally to countering disinformation online, the intended measures by the South African Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), and the role of private sector actors. The other members of the panel were Dr Nomsa Masuku (IEC), Stephen Grootes (SAfm) and Adam Oxford (freelance journalist).
