Two-Thirds of South African News Sites Take No Action Against AI Scraping — And the Ones That Do Are the Ones That Can Afford To

Nearly seven in ten South African news websites take no specific action to block AI crawlers from scraping their content, according to a new report — and the publishers that do act are overwhelmingly the largest and best-resourced. The Protocol Gap: South Africa , published by the Media Leadership Think Tank at the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science, the Journalism Relay Project and the International Fund for Public Interest Media, examined the robots.txt files of 263