Our next story is from South Africa. The country has taken aim at US tech giants Google, and Facebook. All. All of these companies are Pretoria’s crosshair’s. They’ve all been pulled up by South Africa’s competition commission. It says these US tech titans are undermining South African media houses and that American algorithms favor global news outlets at the expense of South African media companies. the biggest offender is apparently Google. In fact, let me read a part of the statement. And this is what it says: aye: Google’s.
Monopoly position and the unequal bargaining position of the medmeanan that there has not been an equitable share of value between Google and new publishers in South Africana. Thee Google algorithm distorts competition between news media were the charges and what is thiolation? n? an annual fine between about $ut $16 and $27 million for 3 to years; Ars; that is what South Africa want charge. rye. Go also came up with orders for Facebook and X.. Peoria wants the social media platforms to change their algorithms.
that they direct more traffic towards South African media companies. That’s not all; they want to take American social media companies to task over the spread of misinformation. Pretoria wants to make them liable for misinformation posted online. Now, you may or may not agree with these recommendations but that’s not even the here. the. The point being made Look at the bigger picture. This is a message from South Africa. cIt wants to reel the Americans in. It’s not afraid of clashing with big. Tech,
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Tech, especially companies, is being favored by the Trump administration because look at the exchanges. haEarlier this month, Trump lashed out at South Africa over a new land law there in Africa. Africa. Trump said Pretoria was treating white South Africans, quote-unquote,” very badly so he stopped all of us. Aid to Africa: Af Perhaps he was hoping to make them fall in instead. read. This was the response: Wesel: We are concerned about the potential impact of the decision by the United States government to suspend some of its funding for HIV and TB programs. Africa has been in
Rica has been in countries now. Thanks now. This funding that we get accounts for about 177% of our spending. y’s HIV spend We will not be deterred. We are, as South Africans, a resilient people and we will not be bullied. d. South African president Cyril Ramaphosa is walking a tightrope, trying his best to limit the fallout from Trump’s order but he can’t be seen as weak either so he’s making excuses for Washington like he did at the recent G20 event that was held in Johannesburg with Trump’s Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
pulled out of the. This. This is how Repose expel: This is it: This is a boy, not a boy, C. This can be ascribed to a whole number of reasons, which he has stated, which we note and we have resolved that in the diplomatic process he will be able to have those matters discussed to have those matters dealt with so that we are able to iron out wrinkles that may have appeared in our relationship. He was playing good cop here at the same time, one of his ministers appearing in our relationship. He was playing good cop; here at the same time, one of his ministers was playing bad cop. The minister said South Africa is to work.
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With Russia and Iran on nuclear projects, this is significant because
remember the US and South Africa had an old deal, a long-standing deal on nuclear energy, a deal that expired in 2022. They’ve been talking about reviving it. Reports say that a new deal is almost ready but now with the Russia and Iran rhetoric, South Africa has basically made a threat. It has told Washington that it has other options so Trump should not try to push his luck. How will the US respond?? Both the nuclear and now the nuclear.
And the tech challenge:: how will he respond? Thee Americans have already stopped aid;; will they target trade NeXT? Whoever wins this game of international chicken,, one thing isclear:r: it is ordinary citizens, both South African and American, who will ultimately pay the price. .HI, HI, how are you? Very well you for being here .set, ,Mr. President .Namaste. .How many people generally follow you in interviews??Typically in a month we have, viewers up to 150 million .tat’s more than twice the population of Franc and in.
In the last three years, we had three billion viewers so I say, “Lon, this is your chance to be famous. You’re on the first post. One word to describe your equation with the prime minister as India and France together: There: Are you creating a new era of non-alignment in the technology space? ? India is a training superpower, producing more engineers a year than all of Europe and the US combined so we have that partnership. p. We have a partnership on the environment and the economy. We also have civilian nuclear programs and that is something.
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We’ve developed far beyond the France-India relationship, so we want to work together on AI and then comes China with its deep-sea creating models at a fraction of the cost. Did that innovation take you by surprise? Did that breakthrough make you sit up and think, What? What did the Chinese do, and how? But what did Deep Seek do? They took everything. Does innovation take you by surprise? Did that breakthrough make you sit up and think, What? What was already available from the last AI model was already available, and then, uh, everything that was already available from the last AI model, and then, uh, they recalibrated it. So are you going to ban Chinese AI in France so we don’t have this American approach?
