ANALYSIS Competition Commission report on Big Tech and media offers scant hope to beleaguered industry 6 min 1 By Rebecca Davis
POLITICALLY AWEH Exposure doesn’t pay the rent — the South African media crisis 2 min 2 By Politically Aweh
MEDIA QUANDARY OP-ED AI slop and the battle for truth — why platform dominance threatens quality information 8 min 0 By Anya Schiffrin
PROTECTING JOURNALISM OP-ED Digital divide, global dialogue — how South Africa can play a role in redesigning media’s future 3 min 0 By Noluthando Jokazi
BOOK REVIEW ‘Careless People’ — the tell-all book that Facebook tried to ban 10 min 8 By Rebecca Davis
The Conversation Bill Gates’ origin story describes a life of privilege, exposing the DNA of some of the tech industry’s problems 6 min 3 By Dana McKay
COMPETITION COMMISSION INTERIM REPORT Big Tech monopoly blamed for media downturn, Google urged to pay up to R500m annually to a fund 4 min 14 By Ferial Haffajee
INTERIM REPORT Competition Commission inquiry — SA media companies welcome smackdown for Big Tech 4 min 1 By Rebecca Davis
INTERIM REPORT Competition Commission warns: AI and Big Tech's grip on media threatens South Africa's democratic foundations 5 min 2 By Yeshiel Panchia
REFLECTION How social media prepared us for AI, and how to get off the algorithmic junk food diet 4 min 1 By Dean McCoubrey
DISINFORMATION Nobel laureate Maria Ressa warns of disinformation and big tech’s influence on SA democracy 4 min 2 By Nkululeko Ndlovu
THE CONVERSATION How to protect your data privacy: A digital media expert provides steps you can take and explains why you can’t go it alone 4 min 0 By Nathan Schneider
WORLD NEWS DAY OP-ED The press is not the solution to all our dilemmas, but imagine a world without it 3 min 0 By Marcelo Rech
SUSTAINABILITY ANALYSIS Journalism should be free for big tech and AI to use – here’s why, and how 8 min 16 By Styli Charalambous
LETTER FROM THE DM168 EDITOR As the holiday season approaches, enjoy our dollops of brain-nourishing food for thought 3 min 0 By Unknown Author
