News & Politics
In this episode of Discourse ZA, Justine Limpitlaw and William Bird discuss the roles of law and media in the current pandemic: Should disinformation be criminalised? Where is the line between legitimate government intervention and authoritarian overreach? Lastly, they discuss the Bill Gates saga and the importance of mainstream media getting their facts straight. --- Justine Limpitlaw - BA LLB (Wits) LLM (Yale) - is an independent communications law consultant, a Visiting Adjunct Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, and the author of two books — the Media Law Handbook for Southern Africa and the Media Law Handbook for Eastern Africa. She specializes in electronic communications law and has extensive experience in broadcasting licensing processes, including DTT and Satellite television services. You can follow her on Twitter at @JustineLimLaw. Twitter: https://twitter.com/JustineLimLaw Books: https://bit.ly/2RswhA8 --- William Bird is the Director of Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), an NGO that combats disinformation and promotes ethical and fair journalism. At MMA, William has overseen or been directly involved in over 100 media monitoring projects on subjects ranging from gender based violence, HIV, and racism to reporting on Africa and migration in the media and public broadcasting sectors. Some highlights include the conceptualisation of a range of data journalism tools, including Newstools.co.za, Wazimap.co.za and MMA’s own monitoring tool, Dexter. You can follow him on Twitter at @Billbobbird. Twitter: https://twitter.com/Billbobbird Website: https://mediamonitoringafrica.org/ --- Follow us on Social Media: YouTube: https://bit.ly/2u46Mdy Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/digitaldiscourseza/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/discourseza Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/digitaldiscourseza/ Subscribe to the Discourse ZA Podcast: iTunes: https://apple.co/2V5ckEM Stitcher: https://bit.ly/2UILooX Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2vlBwaG RSS feed: https://bit.ly/2VwsTsy Email us at digitaldiscourseza@gmail.com