The US Department of Justice may be on the verge of seeking a break-up of Google in a bid to make…
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For almost a decade, researchers have been gathering evidence that the social media platform Facebook disproportionately amplifies low-quality content and misinformation. So it…
With Africa’s gaming industry approaching a milestone revenue of $1 billion in 2024, giant tech firms are beginning to show…
There’s a growing global movement to ensure that researchers can get access to the huge quantity of data assembled and…
In a portent of things to come in 2024, Google lost the first of many major antitrust lawsuits on 11…
If you’ve been a long-time Google user, you may have noticed recently that Google’s search results are not quite as…
The uncontrolled power of US Big Tech firms has finally met its match with the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA).…
There was a huge outcry when Elon Musk summarily fired half of Twitter’s 7,500 employees and most of its contractors…
China’s digital economy has advanced rapidly over the past two decades, with services, communications and commerce moving online. The Chinese…
The world’s five leading tech companies – Google (now Alphabet), Apple, Facebook (now Meta), Amazon and Microsoft – have taken…