BREAKING: Tinubu orders investigation of Google, Meta, X, others

President Bola Tinubu has asked the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, FCCPC, to analyse apical 1global exertion companies and Generative Artificial Intelligence, AI, platforms implicit allegations of anti-competitive practices and unlawful exploitation of the contented of Nigerian media organisations.

This followed a associated petition submitted to the Presidency by the Nigerian Press Organisation, NPO.

A connection issued connected Monday by the Director of Corporate Affairs astatine the FCCPC, Ondaje Ijagwu, said the probe would absorption connected allegations against large exertion companies including Meta, Alphabet, which owns Google, and X, formerly known arsenic Twitter, arsenic good arsenic definite Generative AI platforms operating successful Nigeria.

The connection partially read, “Big exertion companies person travel nether the radar of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission pursuing allegations of...