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The Competition Commission delivers its final Market Inquiry report to Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition Parks Tau at the Sandton Hotel. Joined by Competition Commissioner Doris Tshepe and Deputy Commissioner James Hodge were in attendance.  – Photo:  The Competition Commission

Competition regulation is essential for inclusive growth

In ensuring that markets remain open for all, the Competition Commission’s work cultivates the right conditions for new and growing businesses, including black-owned businesses,…

Elon Musk. (File photo)

EDITORIAL | We must all reclaim our information space

A few powerful men control the dominant means of creating and sharing information in 2025

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Tweeting ministers, silent ministries: SA’s missed opportunity in digital governance

Those in government must stop using social media for public relations and start using it as a means of two-way communication with citizens

Misleading narratives are inflaming tensions between Southern African Development Community and East African Community nations.

The era of misinformation and disinformation is a global crisis

The battle against this manipulation is collective, requiring unified action from all who seek to preserve democracy and human rights

(Graphic: John McCann/M&G)

Imagining a better digital public sphere

X, Facebook and Instagram exercise ordinate and often pernicious power, which must be contested and socially enriching alternatives developed

More than 70% of adults surveyed in 25 countries perceive the spread of online misinformation, the global economy and terrorism as major threats in 2025, a new report from the Pew Research Centre shows.

Tech is already being used to manipulate us

From Egypt to South Africa, fake accounts, bots and generative AI are manipulating African politics. And 2024 is a record year for elections

X marks the spot: American author Ben Mezrich uses his access to South African-born billionaire Elon Musk’s closest associates to bring readers the inside story in Breaking Twitter. Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images

Toe-to-toe steers ‘Chief Twit’ from the brink

This is an edited extract from Ben Mezrich’s new book called Breaking Twitter

X marks the spot: Elon Musk’s X is in trouble in Australia over abusive content. (Photo illustration by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Musk’s X launches court fight with Australian watchdog

The billionaire has cut more than 80% of the platform’s workforce, including moderators tasked with stamping out abusive content

Illustrated Twitter Logo is changed to X. (CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)

Twitter website replaces bird logo with X

Twitter launched its new logo on Monday, replacing the blue bird with a white X on a black background as the Elon Musk-owned company moves toward rebranding as X. The social…

Twitter headquarters in San Francisco, California, US. Twitter  said it ended a policy designed to suppress false or misleading information about Covid-19, part of Elon Musk’s polarising mission to remake the social network as a place for unmoderated speech.  (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Prominent Twitter users ticked off over $8 fee lose verification

Well-known South Africans, including Trevor Noah, Siya Kolisi and John Steenhuisen, have lost their check mark as Elon Musk pushes for Twitter Blue

Elon Musk. (File photo)

Tech billionaires who bit the dust – but still have a fortune

The fortunes of Silicon Valley billionaires took a beating in 2022 as the share prices of the world’s tech giants plummeted

X marks the spot: Elon Musk’s X is in trouble in Australia over abusive content. (Photo illustration by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Twitter users vote to oust chief executive Elon Musk

Musk has sacked half of Twitter’s staff, readmitted far-right figures to the platform, suspended journalists and tried to charge for previously free services

Posting intimate details of our of our personal and professional online gives cybercriminals valuable information. (Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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Unforgettable social media moments

To meme or not to meme is the question … we pick some stand-out posts

Elon Musk cut Twitter’s workforce in half shortly after taking over last month, eliminating about 3 700 jobs in cost-cutting measures.  (Muhammed Selim Korkutata / Anadolu Agency)

Turmoil for Twitter employees stunned by erratic Elon Musk demands

Unclear policies and ‘hardcore’ demands has hit staff morale and many of those who weren’t fired have quit, causing technical and other problems

Elon Musk’s twitter profile is displayed on a mobile phone and the image of him is seen on a computer screen on back of it in Ankara, Turkiye on October 06, 2022.  Photo: Getty Images

Elon Musk’s covert war on free speech

Meaningful freedom needs rules to curb abuses because no freedom — whether of speech or action — is limitless

A letter signed by Elon Musk and hundreds of experts calling for a pause in the development of artificial intelligence is a “hot mess” of “AI hype” that even misrepresents an academic paper, critics say. (Reuters/Mike Blake)

Court battle starts in Musk, Twitter buyout

The hearing is the start of what looks to be a long legal wrangle where Musk could either walk away or be forced to go through with the deal

A letter signed by Elon Musk and hundreds of experts calling for a pause in the development of artificial intelligence is a “hot mess” of “AI hype” that even misrepresents an academic paper, critics say. (Reuters/Mike Blake)

Musk and Twitter: From volatile courtship to messy divorce

Elon Musk’s pursuit of Twitter was a melodrama from beginning to end

Place of woe: A photograph of an unknown artist’s illustration of the Star Chamber, circa 1800. Photo: Universal History Archive/Getty Images

OPINION| Social media: The new Star Chamber

People can be judged, found guilty and punished for posts they made years before and in a specific context

A woman walks a dog past the so-called “people’s installation to a Russian soldier” nicknamed the “polite people” created by residents in the backyard of their apartment building in the town of Podolsk, outside Moscow, on March 28, 2022. (Photo by Yuri KADOBNOV / AFP)

Twitter moves to limit reach of Russian government accounts

‘We will not amplify o government accounts belonging to states that limit access to free information and are engaged in armed interstate conflict,’ the social network said

bell hooks’ books, articles and quotes emphasised our need to use love in the fight against the complex issues which affected Black women, queer and trans communities. (Photo: Karjean Levine/Getty)

bell hooks and the return to radical love

bell hooks’ intentional accessibility shows how feminist theory can be used against patriarchy