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Crossed Wires: Musk, Trump, Mountainhead and the epic battle for the reins of influence

World

Crossed Wires: Musk, Trump, Mountainhead and the epic battle for the reins of influence

By Steven Boykey Sidley

Watch – Inside South Africa’s nano-influencer campaigns: Politics meets paid promotion

Maverick News

Watch – Inside South Africa’s nano-influencer campaigns: Politics meets paid promotion

By Rebecca Davis

It’s all fake – nano-influencers and their paid campaigns to stroke political egos

DM168

It’s all fake – nano-influencers and their paid campaigns to stroke political egos

By Rebecca Davis

Has Russia really turned on South Africa over the land issue?

Maverick News

Has Russia really turned on South Africa over the land issue?

By Rebecca Davis

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

Business Maverick

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

By Yeshiel Panchia

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

Business Maverick

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

By Ferial Haffajee

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

Maverick News

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

By Rebecca Davis

Inside Visegrad24, a Polish news site pushing a right-wing agenda about South Africa to the world

Maverick News

Inside Visegrad24, a Polish news site pushing a right-wing agenda about South Africa to the world

By Rebecca Davis

Hate speech on X surged for at least eight months after Elon Musk takeover – new research

Maverick Life

Hate speech on X surged for at least eight months after Elon Musk takeover – new research

By Michael Jensen

Foreign interest in Africa comes with damaging disinformation tactics

Op-eds

Foreign interest in Africa comes with damaging disinformation tactics

By Kyle Hiebert

Musk’s game — why you shouldn’t believe everything you read about the UK grooming gang scandal

World

Musk’s game — why you shouldn’t believe everything you read about the UK grooming gang scandal

By Ufrieda Ho

Do airlines have a problem with overbooking flights?

Business Maverick

Do airlines have a problem with overbooking flights?

By Ray Mahlaka