Research released Thursday by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) offers the latest chapter in the rapid demise of Elon Musk’s Twitter: Major advertisers — including those featured during this weekend’s Super Bowl — are paying the social network millions of dollars to drag their brands through the platform’s…

Twitter is unraveling at the speed of a SpaceX rocket. Things have gotten so bad under the erratic reign of Elon Musk that the future of the social-media company is in question. What, if anything, should be done to pull Twitter from the brink? From the moment Musk walked through…

U.S. legislation that lets media cartels collude is the wrong way to foster public-interest journalism — By Sanjay Jolly and Timothy Karr Yes, journalism is in crisis in the United States. That’s obvious to anyone observing the job losses and newspaper closures that have wreaked havoc on local news production over the past 20 years. …

(Originally published in Columbia Journalism Review) IN FEBRUARY, Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota reintroduced the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, which is designed to make Silicon Valley’s billionaires pay for the harms they’ve inflicted on the news industry. “What does Big Tech’s dominance over the news mean for Americans?” Klobuchar…

Just before Thanksgiving break, former President Donald Trump told Fox News that he had met Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse at Mar-a-Lago, where the two smiled for a photo that was custom built for right-wing social media. The message behind the encounter is brutally simple: The ostensible leader of the U.S…

Ripples from environmental activist Greta Thunberg’s passionate speech in Milan this September were still being felt last week as politicians, diplomats, NGO leaders and youth advocates convened during the World Forum for Democracy at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France. In her speech, Thunberg denounced the planet’s “so-called leaders”…

On Sunday, New York Times journalists Sheera Frenkel and Tiffany Hsu wrote on a topic that’s gone underreported: the role that local radio and television stations play in spreading lies about COVID vaccines. While Facebook and YouTube deserve a lot of the heat they’ve been getting for business models that…

On Monday many observed World Press Freedom Day, a chance for people everywhere to assess the global health of a free press and the future of journalism. As the world marked the occasion, the world’s largest tech companies, including Amazon, Facebook and Google, reported their quarterly earnings. …

Racism pays in America — especially if you’re the primetime host of a cable channel that panders to the country’s sizable population of white nationalists. Fox News struck bigotry gold when it offered its 8 p.m. time slot to Tucker Carlson, who returned the favor by routinely fanning the flames…