Filed Under: “Media business”

Newspapers’ lawsuit against Facebook and Google shows courts may be best for reining in tech abuses

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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Contrary to the GOP victim narrative, Twitter’s own research shows that right-wing content gets amplified more on its platform


Revelation that AT&T helped found OAN shows how business wants to monetize extremism

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Trump is gone but governmental attacks on press freedom are continuing

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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

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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

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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

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Hateful hosts like Tucker Carlson alienated advertisers, but it hasn’t harmed FNC’s bottom line


 

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