The world's biggest social media companies face several landmark trials this year that seek to hold them responsible for harms to children who use their platforms. Opening statements in one such trial ...

Annalee Schott used to live in rural Colorado where the farm, the barn, and the horses were her happy place. But online she was drawn into a dark world. The 18-year-old’s TikTok algorithm allegedly ...

Australia recently decided to try something ambitious. Starting late last year, all children under 16 have been banned from having accounts on social-media sites such as TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram ...

A year of industry shakeups led to an increase in entertainment and media layoffs by 18% (Christopher Smith/TheWrap) After a slight dip in layoffs in 2024, the entertainment and media industry jobs ...

Alain Sherter is a senior managing editor with CBS News. He covers business, economics, money and workplace issues for CBS MoneyWatch. Trump Media & Technology is merging with fusion energy company ...

Trump Media and Technology Group announced a merger agreement with fusion power company TAE Technologies valued at more than $6 billion. The all-stock deal, expected to close in mid-2026, will result ...

A new campaign dubbed 'GhostPoster' is hiding JavaScript code in the image logo of malicious Firefox extensions with more than 50,000 downloads, to monitor browser activity and plant a backdoor. The ...

You’re reading Fault Lines, Jay Caspian Kang’s weekly column on politics and the media. Media is a famously myopic and sclerotic industry. The big changes that take place within it often go unnoticed, ...

Collier Jennings is an entertainment journalist with a substantial amount of experience under his belt. Collier, or "CJ" to his friends and family, is a dedicated fan of genre films - particularly ...

The White House is asking for help from the American people to identify what it calls biased reporting against President Trump’s administration by mainstream media outlets. “The White House recently ...

Catherine Happer receives funding from UKERC, Avatar Alliance Foundation and the University of Glasgow. That trust in media is declining throughout the world is almost an unquestioned truth today. But ...