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Republicans are priming their voters to believe the California recall was stolen

By Aaron Rupar September 10

Fox News ignores a DC bomb threat inspired by right-wing conspiracy theory culture

By Aaron Rupar August 20

Why Newsmax is failing

By Aaron Rupar July 28

Why Netflix is getting into games

By Peter Kafka July 20

Don’t be fooled by that viral Hannity clip. Fox News’s Covid-19 coverage is a mess.

By Aaron Rupar July 20

What is CNN+ and why would you pay for it?

By Peter Kafka July 19

Facebook wants creators, but YouTube is paying creators much, much more

By Peter Kafka July 15

Tucker Carlson’s NSA spying claims are evidence-free. Republicans are running with them anyway.

By Aaron Rupar July 1

BuzzFeed grew up. Now it’s going public.

By Peter Kafka June 24

The glaring problems with Tucker Carlson’s attempt to blame the FBI for the insurrection

By Aaron Rupar June 23

Why you can’t write for Bulletin, Facebook’s new Substack clone

By Peter Kafka June 4

Here’s who owns everything in Big Media today

By Rani Molla and Peter Kafka May 27

Why Amazon is paying nearly $9 billion for MGM and James Bond

By Peter Kafka May 26

Journalists can tweet about Black Lives Matter but not about Palestine

By Peter Kafka May 26

It never made sense for AT&T to buy WarnerMedia. Now it’s undoing its $100 billion deal.

By Peter Kafka May 16

Apple has an antitrust problem. Here’s one way to solve it.

By Peter Kafka May 6

Twitter makes all of its money from ads. It’s trying to change that.

By Peter Kafka May 4

How subscriptions took over our lives

By Terry Nguyen April 29

Apple will let podcasters sell subscriptions and keep a cut for itself

By Peter Kafka April 20

Substack wants to pay you to write about local news

By Peter Kafka April 15

Fox News has become a jobs program for some Trump family members and ex-staffers

By Aaron Rupar April 1

Why the defamation lawsuits against Fox News could seriously hurt the company

By Ian Millhiser March 30

Fox News’s coverage of Biden’s press conference was hilariously petty

By Aaron Rupar March 25

Substack writers are mad at Substack. The problem is money and who’s making it.

By Peter Kafka March 19

TikTok surprises users by making personalized ads mandatory

By Sara Morrison March 16

Hannity says Biden should call Trump and thank him for his Covid-19 response. That’s a stretch.

By Aaron Rupar March 12

The problem for Paramount+ (and every other streamer)? Everyone already has Netflix.

By Peter Kafka and Rani Molla March 4

Why Fox News is having a day-long meltdown over Dr. Seuss

By Aaron Rupar March 2

How YouTube swallowed the world

By Peter Kafka and Shirin Ghaffary March 2

Rush Limbaugh and the echo chamber that broke American politics

By Sean Illing February 26

Inside the new $65 million push from progressives to compete with conservative media

By Theodore Schleifer February 23

Why Spotify wants to work with Joe Rogan, Barack Obama, and … you

By Peter Kafka February 22

Why are mainstream news outlets giving a platform to Republicans who lie about the 2020 election?

By Aaron Rupar February 22

Fox Business abruptly canceled Lou Dobbs Tonight

By Zeeshan Aleem February 6

OAN prefaced Mike Lindell’s election “documentary” with a hilariously massive disclaimer

By Aaron Rupar February 5

Newsmax canceled MyPillow’s Mike Lindell live on air

By Aaron Rupar February 3

Fox News has barely covered McConnell’s scathing statement about Marjorie Taylor Greene

By Aaron Rupar February 2

Fox News’s post-Trump slump, explained

By Aaron Rupar January 27

Did the New York Times fire an editor over a tweet? The Lauren Wolfe controversy, explained.

By Anya van Wagtendonk January 26

Legendary broadcaster Larry King has died at age 87

By Anya van Wagtendonk January 23