Disinformation and the sharing of disinformation is one of the greatest threats to a democracy, and we continue to witness the dangerous dissemination and sharing of disinformation across various social media and digital platforms.has been fully operational since 22 March 2020, and since then we have seen some dangerous disinformation circulating through our social media platforms.
It is interesting to see where the complaints originate from, in other words, where the instances of alleged disinformation are being shared. As the data indicates, during the reporting period most complaints were about content being posted on Twitter , followed by WhatsApp, and then Facebook . Other platforms had very few complaints during the period, with either one or no complaints. These figures are unusual, as for the period thus far, most complaints – 61% – have come from WhatsApp and Facebook.During the period, and as expected, most of the complaints were about disinformation related to Covid-19.