The fined distributors of online content are based in SA and abroad. (Image source: iStock) South Africa’s Film and Publication Board (FPB) has fined 21 commercial content service providers for unlawfully distributing explicit or harmful content online, contravening the Films and Publications Act (FPA) of 1996. During a media briefing in Johannesburg this morning, the…
The Faranani DocTec stand at last year’s OpenText Summit. Content management and effective governance are critical foundations for AI adoption, with unmanaged data posing an organisational risk and undermining AI progress. This is according to Faranani DocTec, an OpenText Reseller Platinum Partner and Titanium Experience Partner of the upcoming OpenText Summit Africa 2026 in Johannesburg….
X has stopped accepting applications for its legacy ad revenue-sharing system and will shut down the programme entirely after September 7. Replacing it is the new Original Content Rewards Programme, which compensates creators based on qualified impressions generated by authentic, original posts. Read: NASA’s Operation Big Bang extends Voyager 2’s science mission Eligible content includes…
Gerald Langton, Business Development Manager at Canon South Africa, introduces Canon’s range of cameras and lenses to the media. Canon South Africa used its presence at Mediatech Africa 2026 to demonstrate how imaging technology is evolving to serve everyone from social media content creators to wildlife filmmakers and broadcasters, while highlighting the company’s long-term vision…
TikTok SA took action against AI-generated and misleading content, removing thousands of videos. (Image created using ChatGPT) TikTok removed more than 1.1 million videos in South Africa during the fourth quarter of 2025 for violating its Community Guidelines, while also interrupting more than 188 000 live streaming rooms that breached its platform rules. The figures…
IShowSpeed’s livestreamed Africa tour adds to the work that African digital influencers have been doing in recent years to capture the continent beyond clichéd images of poverty and conflict. Under the bronze gaze of the African Renaissance Monument in Dakar, the American content creator and travel influencer IShowSpeed laughed into his lapel mic as a…
Wikipedia on Thursday unveiled partnerships with several big tech companies including Microsoft, Meta and Amazon, marking a major step up in the non-profit’s ability to monetise tech firms’ reliance on its content. Wikimedia Foundation, the operator of the online encyclopaedia, said it also signed on AI start-up Perplexity and France’s Mistral AI, among other firms,…
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Canal+ and Warner Bros. Discovery have announced a major expansion of their long-standing strategic partnership, signing a new multi-year, multi-territory agreement that significantly strengthens their collaboration internationally. The expanded deal covers the distribution of HBO Max as well as the renewal of several Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) thematic television channels across multiple markets in Africa…
