South Africa

Digital divide, global dialogue — how South Africa can play a role in redesigning media’s future

By Noluthando Jokazi

Maverick News

‘Careless People’ — the tell-all book that Facebook tried to ban

By Rebecca Davis

Maverick Life

Bill Gates’ origin story describes a life of privilege, exposing the DNA of some of the tech industry’s problems

By Dana McKay

Business Maverick

Big Tech monopoly blamed for media downturn, Google urged to pay up to R500m annually to a fund

By Ferial Haffajee

Maverick News

Competition Commission inquiry — SA media companies welcome smackdown for Big Tech

By Rebecca Davis

Business Maverick

Competition Commission warns: AI and Big Tech's grip on media threatens South Africa's democratic foundations

By Yeshiel Panchia

Sci-Tech

How social media prepared us for AI, and how to get off the algorithmic junk food diet

By Dean McCoubrey

Business Maverick

Lumen Technologies launches sale of consumer fiber unit, sources say

By Reuters

Newsdeck

Microsoft faces wide-ranging US antitrust probe

By Reuters

Maverick News

Nobel laureate Maria Ressa warns of disinformation and big tech’s influence on SA democracy

By Nkululeko Ndlovu

Maverick Life

How to protect your data privacy: A digital media expert provides steps you can take and explains why you can’t go it alone

By Nathan Schneider

Op-eds

The press is not the solution to all our dilemmas, but imagine a world without it

By Marcelo Rech