Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has directed the country\u2019s competition regulator to investigate major technology companies over alleged anti-competitive \u200bpractices and unauthorised use of news content, the Federal Competition \u200cand Consumer Protection Commission said late on Monday.<\/p>\n
The FCCPC said the inquiry would examine complaints by Nigerian media groups against companies including Meta, Alphabet, X and generative \u200bartificial intelligence platforms operating in Nigeria.<\/p>\n
The complaint was submitted by \u200bthe Nigerian Press Organisation, which represents newspaper owners, journalists\u2019 unions, \u2060broadcasters and online publishers.<\/p>\n
Alphabet, Meta and X did not immediately respond \u200bto requests for comment.<\/p>\n
The investigation could become a test of Nigeria\u2019s ability \u200bto regulate global digital platforms whose search, social media and AI products have transformed how news is distributed and monetised.<\/p>\n
The FCCPC said it would examine allegations of market \u200bdominance, anti-competitive conduct, the unauthorised extraction or commercial use of copyrighted \u200bnews and broadcast content, and the use of journalistic material to train generative AI \u200cmodels.<\/p>\n
The \u2060regulator said the investigation did not presume wrongdoing and that all affected parties would have an opportunity to present information before any conclusions were reached.<\/p>\n
Regulators in several countries have examined whether large technology companies should \u200bcompensate publishers for \u200bcontent used to \u2060attract users, train AI systems or generate advertising revenue.<\/p>\n
In Africa, South Africa\u2019s competition regulator last year secured concessions \u200bfrom\u00a0Google and YouTube, including a 688 million rand ($42 \u200bmillion) media \u2060support package, following a market inquiry into digital platforms and news media.<\/p>\n
France\u00a0fined Google\u00a0\u20ac500 million in 2021 over failures in negotiations with news publishers and \u2060breaches linked \u200bin part to the use of publisher \u200bcontent by AI systems.\u00a0Australia\u00a0and\u00a0Canada\u00a0have also introduced bargaining frameworks that resulted in payment agreements \u200bbetween technology companies and publishers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has directed the country\u2019s competition regulator to investigate major technology companies over alleged anti-competitive \u200bpractices and unauthorised use of news content, the Federal Competition \u200cand Consumer Protection Commission said late on Monday. The FCCPC said the inquiry would examine complaints by Nigerian media groups against companies including Meta, Alphabet, X and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,2362,27],"tags":[175],"class_list":["post-21375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-featured","category-west-africa","tag-nigeria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21377,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21375\/revisions\/21377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}