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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) wants the Competition Commission to impose an unassailable obligation on Google, Meta and X to give more prominence to trustworthy news content on their platforms. (Photo Illustration by Leon Neal/Getty Images)
AI REGULATION

Reporters Without Borders wants big techs to give more prominence to trustworthy news content on platforms

The media freedom group said a provisional report by the Competition Commission in February ‘clearly recognises journalism’s value in the content circulating on online platforms’

  • Nkateko Joseph Mabasa
6 min read
BBC WORLD NEWS

Pay-TV provider StarSat challenges Icasa over expired licence

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa has ordered StarSat to stop broadcasting after failing to renew its licence on time

  • Anathi Madubela
2 min read
One-way flow: From Nelson Mandela to Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma and Cyril Ramaphosa (above), there has never been a standard of high engagement between the press and the president in South Africa.
ACCOUNTABILITY

Pure Politics: ‘Family meetings’ underline uncomfortable press relationship

To achieve a deeper democracy, it is necessary to confront the tensions that have existed between the media and successive presidents since 1994.

  • Luke Feltham
10 min read