By Natasha Doris
The country’s Competition Commission has released a provisional set of suggested remedies and actions to correct emerging inequalities in the country’s news environment.
The South African Competition Commission has published a provisional report recommending steps to address inequalities in national news distribution and traffic, allegedly caused by digital giants including Google, TikTok and Meta.
The agency published its Media and Digital Platforms Market Inquiry preliminary report on 24 February, and has invited public comment for six weeks on its proposed remedies and actions before the publication of a final report in approximately four to five months.
The Commission took 16 months to investigate the influence of digital titans on the increasingly digitalised media environment, noting that as print media struggles to find an audience and journalists migrate online, digital platforms have become the avenue for 87% of audiences to find their news, with the majority
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