Uganda’s developer community has shown immense potential, but this potential must be nurtured with the right kind of ...

Studies show AI-generated content is increasingly influential in Africa, but there has also ... The fake videos, first discovered on Facebook and later circulated in WhatsApp groups and on social ...

Meta has formally expanded Meta AI to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), opening the AI ... Messenger, and Facebook itself. However, the exact feature set that’s available in each market ...

From examining Facebook's ambitious Libra cryptocurrency ... in Meta’s financials that could have major implications for AI in Africa—especially given WhatsApp’s ubiquity across the continent.

Artificial intelligence is being used to influence democratic processes in Africa. Deepfakes, cheap fakes and fake news are all weapons that can be produced cheaply and endlessly. So how can citizens ...

As Meta and Microsoft pursue divergent AI strategies, African tech expert Tinashe Mukogo analyses how these approaches could revolutionise the continent's digital landscape. With WhatsApp's dominance ...

Facebook's parent company, Meta, has announced plans to deploy a 50,000-kilometre undersea cable system spanning five ...

Facebook and other social media platforms in South Africa. The inquiry was launched in October 2023 to investigate the imbalance between digital platforms and their impact on news media in the ...

JOHANNESBURG, March 7 (Xinhua) -- Microsoft announced on Thursday that the U.S. software giant will invest 5.4 billion rand (about 297 million U.S. dollars) in South Africa by the end of 2027 to ...

The Competition Commission's provisional report into Big Tech and South African news media, published on Monday, moves beyond ...

alongside multiple thematic seminars exploring the application of AI and aerospace technologies in Africa's security, agriculture, healthcare, and other fields. In his opening speech, Yaya Sylla ...

The tech giant and social media platforms Facebook, YouTube, X and TikTok must also make changes to improve access to news ...