Africa

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

By Tolu Olarewaju and Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada

Maverick News

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

By Rebecca Davis

Sci-Tech

How India’s richest man is using ‘brain mapping’ neuroscience to woo advertisers to cricket

By Reuters

Maverick News

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

By Rebecca Davis

World

Zuckerberg, Musk and weaponising freedom of expression

By William Bird

World

Zuckerberg’s content moderation pivot and the critical matter of whom to trust

By Steven Boykey Sidley

Maverick Life

Meta is abandoning fact checking – this doesn’t bode well for the fight against misinformation

By Ned Watt, Michelle Riedlinger and Silvia Montaña-Niño

World

Google, Meta urge Australia to delay bill on social media ban for children

By Reuters

Business Maverick

New teen accounts on Instagram are a welcome step, but real ‘peace of mind’ requires more

By Tama Leaver

World

Russia captures town in eastern Donetsk; Moscow ready to resume nuke testing ’at any moment’

By Reuters

Business Maverick

A good time to be a lawyer — the top five AI lawsuits

By Paul McNally

South Africa

Battle for the future of media — Daily Maverick’s submission to the Competition Commission

By Styli Charalambous