DIGITAL PLATFORMS OP-ED Five key takeaways from the Competition Commission report into Big Tech and the SA media 7 min 0 By William Bird
ANALYSIS Competition Commission report on Big Tech and media offers scant hope to beleaguered industry 6 min 1 By Rebecca Davis
DIGITAL MISCHIEF Mystery of the latest fake online campaign — in favour of police minister Senzo Mchunu 5 min 1 By Rebecca Davis
BUSINESS REFLECTION Crossed Wires: Musk, Trump, Mountainhead and the epic battle for the reins of influence 5 min 0 By Steven Boykey Sidley
VIDEO Watch – Inside South Africa’s nano-influencer campaigns: Politics meets paid promotion 1 min 0 By Rebecca Davis
BUYING POWER It’s all fake – nano-influencers and their paid campaigns to stroke political egos 6 min 13 By Rebecca Davis
CRYPTO SCAM SA Parliament's social media accounts hacked to promote the launch of $Ramaphosa token 5 min 8 By Yeshiel Panchia
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
CULTURE WARS Inside Visegrad24, a Polish news site pushing a right-wing agenda about South Africa to the world 2 min 40 By Rebecca Davis
THE CONVERSATION Hate speech on X surged for at least eight months after Elon Musk takeover – new research 4 min 1 By Michael Jensen
ISS TODAY OP-ED Foreign interest in Africa comes with damaging disinformation tactics 4 min 0 By Kyle Hiebert
ANALYSIS Musk’s game — why you shouldn’t believe everything you read about the UK grooming gang scandal 5 min 208 By Ufrieda Ho
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
THE SOCIAL CIRCLE OP-ED Unseen foot soldiers — how naïve nano influencers boost paid political campaigns 7 min 1 By Tabelo Timse, Kyle Findlay and Aldu Cornelissen
'Insensitive and provocative' Roman Cabanac acknowledges 'controversial behaviour' and urges South Africans to give him a chance 3 min 63 By Queenin Masuabi
AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY ANALYSIS Who’s your Goolam? Independent Media blames false doxxing of X account on ‘technical glitch’ 1 min 16 By Marianne Thamm
ANALYSIS Exposed — Iqbal Survé and Lindiwe Sisulu’s ‘unmasking’ event goes down like a lead balloon 3 min 33 By Marianne Thamm
