CJL Submits Comment to South Africa Competition Regulator's Preliminary Report on Media and Digital Platforms
The Center for Journalism & Liberty at Open Markets Institute welcomed the South Africa Competition Commission's provisional report on the Media and Digital Platforms Market Inquiry (MDPMI) and sent comments to strengthen the regulator's proposed remedies to redress market distortions by large digital platforms hurting sustainable journalism and a free press in the country.
The report contains findings of how technology corporations intermediating digital ads sales on the open web, distributing news content, and deploying AI-powered products for search and news discoverability are causing significant harms to the sustainability of journalism and news media in South Africa -- which is enshired as a public good in the nation's Constitution. The report puts forward a series of remedy proposals, focused on fixing long-term competition issues, which involves measures to compel large digital platforms to compensate news media for past harms and significant behavioral remedies to prevent future harms.
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