Africa

Nigeria slaps Meta with $290m in fines for invasive practices

By Tolu Olarewaju and Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada

Politics

Echo chambers of misinformation — the Afrikaner Facebook groups chasing Trump’s refugee offer

By Ernst Calitz

Maverick News

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

By Rebecca Davis

South Africa

Joshlin Smith — TikTok, Gayton McKenzie and how the search became a social media circus

By Vincent Cruywagen

Business Maverick

SA Parliament's social media accounts hacked to promote the launch of $Ramaphosa token

By Yeshiel Panchia

Op-eds

Foreign interest in Africa comes with damaging disinformation tactics

By Kyle Hiebert

Sci-Tech

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

By Dean McCoubrey

DM168

The Tik Tok influencer who is a shining beacon of hope for print journalism in a dark worldwide web

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

By Estelle Ellis

Business Maverick

After the Bell: What is the connection between baboons and your right to privacy?

By Tim Cohen

Business Maverick

Where do you get your news? Probably Facebook, TikTok, WhatsApp or X

By Georgina Crouth

Africa

Joy of shared truth, sacred bond and democracies’ self-evident values

By Branko Brkic and Maria Ressa