LinkedIn runs a hidden JavaScript script called Spectroscopy that silently probes over 6,000 Chrome extensions and collects ...

Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. The poet and critic Randall Jarrell once said that a poet is someone who “manages ...

The influential financial research firm MoffettNathanson suggests that the Google-owned video platform passed Disney's media business in 2025. By Alex Weprin Senior Editor YouTube‘s cultural influence ...

MEP Capital Management, a New York-based private investment firm focused exclusively on the media and entertainment industry, has closed a majority stake acquisition in BondIt Media Capital, the ...

LOS ANGELES, Feb 25 (Reuters) - The former psychotherapist of a California woman suing Meta's (META.O), opens new tab Instagram and Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), opens new tab YouTube, claiming a childhood ...

The assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The conflict in the Middle East. The Russia-Ukraine war. The January 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. All these events offered ...

Is social media addictive to young people? A jury in California is being asked to decide — even though the question still divides researchers. The jury will grapple with two main questions, says Eric ...

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 ...

President Trump said in a recent executive order that the policy of the U.S. is “to promote democracy, the principle of free expression and press, the rule of law, and respect for human rights ...

LOS ANGELES — 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 for ...

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 ...