Faizel Patel – 16/06/2020
As the COVID-19 lockdown continues in South Africa, a transformation expert has told Radio Islam there seems to be decline and shift in the amount of social media users that are interacting on Facebook and other social media platforms.
Janine Shamos says while alot of people globally thought that if they abstain from social media, it would sway them away from the realities of COVID-19.
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a time of information overload where it’s becoming nearly impossible to discern between things that are real and fake.
Shamos however says people need to embrace the fact that there is a new normal.
“I think again it’s kind of carrying on like nothing has changed, isn’t working, because it has changed. In the last week or so, a lot of people are kind of feeling a little overwhelmed, their voice are too lost and I think people need a break because we can’t filter what is real and what isn’t.”
In her column for EWN, Haji Mohamed Dawjee, a South African columnist says false information spreads faster now than ever before and that conspiracy theories don’t just live in the dark corners of the world, they’re omnipresent.
Dawjee says the digitisation of information has made it really easy for like-minded people to find like-minded echo chambers and those echo chambers are where facts go to die.
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