MARS is a platform created and driven by MMA. This civic technology initiative was developed in response to the increase in online attacks against journalists and to combat the limited action taken by both government and technology platforms.

By providing journalists, and those who support them, with an independent tool for reporting attacks, MARS is contributing to building a public record and archive of attacks – an archive that can be used as evidence for action.

Journalists who are being attacked can access this common, anonymised, archive of attacks and they can also store their own attacks in their personal archive.

The goal is to reveal and highlight the scale of attacks and to show that not only are journalists not alone, but to show the world a visual reminder of the high cost of journalism.

The archived material will be used to advocate for meaningful action and to expose common themes, repeat offenders and co-ordinated attacks.

Visit the platform here: https://www.mars.org.za