Filed Under: “Media business”
Newspapers’ lawsuit against Facebook and Google shows courts may be best for reining in tech abuses
By Cory Doctorow
An online ad marketplace stripped of surveillance can thrive, but it will not happen without government intervention
Term limits for newspaper columnists would go a long way
By Parker Molloy
American politics has changed a lot in the past 20 years, unfortunately, the New York Times columnists have not
Alex Jones keeps losing defamation lawsuits, but the underlying issues behind them remain unresolved
By Enrique Armijo
The question of whether private figures who become temporarily famous should face stricter defamation claim standards has yet to be resolved in court
A year after Trump lost the election, have the mainstream media learned anything?
By Parker Molloy
One year after Trump inspired a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol, elite reporters are still treating him as a conventional politician
Twitter study finds social platform favors right-leaning content over left-leaning content
By Brett Wilkins
Contrary to the GOP victim narrative, Twitter’s own research shows that right-wing content gets amplified more on its platform
Trump is gone but governmental attacks on press freedom are continuing
By Kelly Simon and Kate Ruane
Progressives and Democrats must remember that freedom of speech is vital to democracy, no matter who is in power
Facebook cut off accounts of disinformation researchers examining political advertising
By Jessica Corbett
Social media giant cited fake concerns over privacy to stop academics from building list of why users were shown specific political ads
As Covid infections in GOP areas rise, the danger of disinformation has become undeniable
By Eric Boehlert
Many political centrists have long dismissed right-wing media as an irrelevant joke, coronavirus is exposing their error
Cable subscribers are being forced to subsidize Fox News, even if they don’t watch it
By Eric Boehlert
Hateful hosts like Tucker Carlson alienated advertisers, but it hasn’t harmed FNC’s bottom line