Nigeria, May 1 -- Following my recent article on Big Tech's mounting legal challenges, it's clear that 2025 is more than just a year of lawsuits. It is the year platform regulation became fully geopolitical.

Something is shifting-globally, loudly, and legally.

From Washington to Abuja and Nairobi to Brussels, 2025 is shaping up to be the year when digital platform regulation fully enters geopolitical territory. What used to be polite conversations about privacy policies and content moderation have become a high-stakes contest over sovereignty, accountability, and power.

At the heart of it all are the tech behemoths: Meta, Google, X (formerly Twitter), and the growing determination of governments to rein them in. These platforms have ch...