ANALYSIS Competition Commission report on Big Tech and media offers scant hope to beleaguered industry 6 min 1 By Rebecca Davis
ATTENTION ECONOMY Screening into the void — AI and social media preying on kids who are addicted to tech 5 min 2 By Lindsey Schutters
EXCLUSIVE Alleged dark online alter ego of Cape Town school principal causes outrage 6 min 12 By Rebecca Davis
BUSINESS REFLECTION Crossed Wires: The internet cesspool — Can those famous 26 words be changed? 4 min 0 By Steven Boykey Sidley
LANDMARK RULING Meta held accountable by SA court in fight against online child sexual abuse 6 min 0 By Takudzwa Pongweni
TECH IN AFRICA Nigeria slaps Meta with $290m in fines for invasive practices 5 min 0 By Tolu Olarewaju and Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada
TRUMP 2.0 Echo chambers of misinformation — the Afrikaner Facebook groups chasing Trump’s refugee offer 6 min 30 By Ernst Calitz
BOOK REVIEW ‘Careless People’ — the tell-all book that Facebook tried to ban 10 min 8 By Rebecca Davis
MISSING CHILD Joshlin Smith — TikTok, Gayton McKenzie and how the search became a social media circus 4 min 0 By Vincent Cruywagen
CRYPTO SCAM SA Parliament's social media accounts hacked to promote the launch of $Ramaphosa token 5 min 8 By Yeshiel Panchia
ISS TODAY OP-ED Foreign interest in Africa comes with damaging disinformation tactics 4 min 0 By Kyle Hiebert
REFLECTION How social media prepared us for AI, and how to get off the algorithmic junk food diet 4 min 1 By Dean McCoubrey
LETTER FROM THE DM168 EDITOR The Tik Tok influencer who is a shining beacon of hope for print journalism in a dark worldwide web 5 min 0 By Heather Robertson
SOUTH AFRICA Revenge porn — In legal first for SA, court hits couple with millions in civil damages over social media sex video 6 min 10 By Estelle Ellis
BUSINESS REFLECTION After the Bell: What is the connection between baboons and your right to privacy? 4 min 1 By Tim Cohen
COMPETITION COMMISSION INQUIRY Where do you get your news? Probably Facebook, TikTok, WhatsApp or X 4 min 2 By Georgina Crouth
2024 WORLD NEWS DAY OP-ED Joy of shared truth, sacred bond and democracies’ self-evident values 3 min 7 By Branko Brkic and Maria Ressa
Letter from the DM168 Editor Bitter Medicine: Why cost-cutting in government and companies can be essential for a healthy future 5 min 5 By Heather Robertson
SCAM ALERT Fake or cloned websites are tricking shoppers into making expensive mistakes 4 min 3 By Georgina Crouth
MARKET INQUIRY Daily Maverick founders call on Competition Commission to ensure fairness in skewed media sector 5 min 7 By Georgina Crouth
MEDIA CRISIS Thought Daily Maverick’s shutdown was a PR stunt? This is the real state of the news media 5 min 25 By Georgina Crouth
