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Youth mythbusters needed to curb the viral threat to public health communications

Because most fake news is spread on social media where young people feel comfortable, the government should ask for their help

Contenders: Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma

Battle of the websites: Dlamini-Zuma vs Ramaphosa

Her platform says little about her ambitions but the images stretch beyond South Africa’s borders.

Active-Active: It’s no longer down to downtime

The Huawei Cloud Congress presents the Active-Active data centre as a solution to the increasingly memory captive website, writes Liron Segev.

M&G Women site: A ghetto or a platform?

Was launching M&G Women a smart move? Site editor Aliki Karasaridis and editor-in-chief Chris Roper debate the pros and cons with readers.

20 years on, the world’s first web page to be reborn

The world’s first web page will be dragged out of cyberspace and restored as part of a project to celebrate 20 years of the web.

Free State: Our website budget was audited

The Free State has defended the more than R40-million allocated for its website revamp, saying the budget was assessed by the auditor general.

The ‘protection of the Act’ means indemnity from liability.

Act puts noose around the internet’s neck

A badly drafted law easily allows anyone to censor the content of websites hosted in South Africa, writes Leon de Kock

We can argue endlessly about “The Spear” because it inspires different emotions from people — none exclusive to either blacks or whites.

Web policing a global challenge

Whether it be child pornography or a politically sensitive painting, banning content widely distributed online is often pure symbolic futility.

Pittsburgh paper launches online charging scheme

<i>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</i> starts members’ club offering readers extra content, access to journalists and special events.

Pirate Bay file-share four guilty, get year in jail

A Swedish court handed down a guilty verdict and a year in prison on Friday to all four defendants in a copyright test case involving The Pirate Bay.

MySpace, Google team up to pull more users

MySpace is teaming up with internet search leader Google to extend MySpace’s reach and counter the expansion of their common rival, Facebook.

Hacker compromises DA website

The DA website has been offline for the past week and is likely to stay so for the next, thanks to an unknown hacker’s attack on the site.

Giant online security hole slowly shrinking

A giant vulnerability in the internet’s design is allowing criminals to redirect traffic silently to websites under their control.

China lifts ban on Tiananmen websites

Websites on sensitive subjects are accessible in the Chinese capital as the authorities lifted more internet restrictions ahead of the Olympic Games.