Without any regulation, YouTubers and podcasters who use controversial commentary to grow their following aren’t going away anytime soon.
Slik Talk. Rea Gopane. Tasha K. These YouTubers are part of a growing number who attract viewers and followers with their controversial and sometimes defamatory commentary on celebrities.
Rea Gopane, another twentysomething podcaster, got into hot water last year when he claimed that TV presenter Scoop, whose real name is Siyabonga Ngwekazi, had told him that award-winning media personality Bonang Matheba had introduced musician Kiernan Forbes, who goes by the stage name AKA, to drugs.“Scoop told us that AKA is on coke and Bonang is the one that got him into cocaine,” said Gopane.
Recently, both Cardi B and Matheba won cases against the YouTubers. In Cardi B’s case, Kebe was ordered to pay $4-million for defamation and invasion of privacy.Podcaster Rea Gopane. Although both Matheba and Cardi B are holding the YouTubers who recklessly make comments about them accountable, what is the code of conduct to which YouTubers subscribe? If journalists are bound by the Press Code and can be reported to the Press Ombud and broadcasters can be reported to the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa , what happens to YouTubers?
Without the option to report them to the BCCSA, viewers emailed the brands that were sponsoring Mukwevho’s podcast. Old Mutual, Studio 88 and Amstel soon stopped sponsoring the podcast.
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