ALT Advisory’s Avani Singh moderated a panel, organised by Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) and the Goethe Institute, titled ‘Fake news, algorithms and you’. The panel focused on the role that algorithms play both in the dissemination and the countering of ‘fake news’, and discussed issues relating to human bias in algorithms, regulatory measures in other jurisdictions and the role of the media in publishing counter-narratives. The other members of the panel were Matthias Speelkamp (Algorithm Watch), Ferial Haffajee (Daily Maverick) and William Bird (MMA).