South Africa fines Google up to R500 million annually to compensate local media for digital advertising revenue imbalance.

South Africa’s Competition Commission has called for Google to pay local news media between R300 million ($16 million)…

Donnavan-John Linley unpacks the findings of the Competition Commission's provisional report on Big Tech and the South African news media.

The Competition Commission has Google, X, Meta Platforms and other tech and social media companies in its sights.

The country’s competition commission says it has found a “definite” bias in the search engine’s algorithm, against local news agencies Read...

Google has been accused of using its “monopoly” in search to gain “disproportionally” at the expense of local news media.