Nigerian President Bola Tinubu directed the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, or FCCPC, to investigate U.S. technology companies Meta, Alphabet and X, as well as generative artificial intelligence companies operating in Nigeria, over their alleged anti-competitive practices, unauthorized exploitation of copyrighted news content and use of journalistic material from Nigerian news outlets to train generative AI models, Daily Trust reported on July 6. The FCCPC is tasked with determining whether the companies have violated Nigeria's Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Act, or FCCPA, and denied local media organizations opportunities to negotiate fair compensation for the use of their content.