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“Flood the zone with shit”: How misinformation overwhelmed our democracy

By Sean Illing

Yes, the UK media’s coverage of Meghan Markle really is racist

By Maya Goodfellow

Peacock, NBC’s new streaming service, wants you to watch ads

By Peter Kafka

NPR’s sanitizing of Trump’s Milwaukee rally shows how he’s broken the media

By Aaron Rupar

Fox News goes to desperate lengths to gin up outrage over clip of Vince Vaughn chatting with Trump

By Aaron Rupar

Barstool Sports is close to selling to a casino company you’ve never heard of

By Peter Kafka

Facebook will continue letting politicians lie in ads

By Peter Kafka

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A decade of revolt

By Sean Illing

Most investors don’t want to touch media anymore. But Axios is going to raise another $20 million.

By Peter Kafka and Theodore Schleifer

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How a Twitter war in 2010 helped change the way we talk about women’s writing

By Constance Grady

Tucker Carlson on why conservatives should crack down on “vulture capitalism”

By Jane Coaston

Here’s who owns everything in Big Media today

By Rani Molla and Peter Kafka

Tucker Carlson’s defense of Russia takes “America First” to its logical conclusion

By Aaron Rupar

Hannity’s monologue following end of impeachment hearings illustrated Fox News’ alternate reality

By Aaron Rupar

Google transformed the political advertising world with its reversal on targeting

By Theodore Schleifer

Disney says it doesn’t need data to make great shows

By Emily Stewart

The Morning Show’s producers say many of its critics are “Apple haters”

By Shirin Ghaffary

Why Vice’s new CEO thinks Vice’s former, ousted CEO doesn’t get enough credit

By Theodore Schleifer

Sports Illustrated’s new bosses defend why they bought a brand and not a company

By Rani Molla

HBO Max wants to be the next cable bundle instead of the next Netflix

By Jason Del Rey

How to follow (and listen to) Recode’s Code Media conference in Los Angeles

By Kat Borgerding

Coverage of the first impeachment hearing illustrates how the media is falling short

By Aaron Rupar

Netflix says it speaks truth to power, after all

By Peter Kafka

Disney+ is a treasure chest of forgotten films and TV. Here are 6 gems to revisit.

By Emily Todd VanDerWerff, Allegra Frank, and 4 others

Disney says its new Disney+ streaming service is so popular you can’t stream it

By Peter Kafka

If you are a unionized journalist, this labor ruling should worry you

By Ian Millhiser

10 lessons for Disney, Apple, and all the new streaming companies trying to take down Netflix

By Matthew Ball and Alex Kruglov

Bloomberg’s Matt Levine explains Wall Street, WeWork, and how to leave Goldman Sachs for a much lower-paying job

By Peter Kafka

How TV paved America’s road to Trump

By Sean Illing

Leaked tape: ABC News killed an interview with an accuser of Jeffrey Epstein

By Jane Coaston

HBO will be the center of a tell-all oral history book

By Peter Kafka

You may not have to pay anything — for now — to see new shows on Apple TV+ and elsewhere

By Peter Kafka

Poor kids spend nearly 2 hours more on screens each day than rich kids

By Rani Molla

Facebook has finally decided that the best way to deliver news is to act like a newspaper

By Peter Kafka

Facebook is launching a news section — and will pay some publishers millions

By Peter Kafka

The blowup over Vanity Fair’s Trump trading story, explained

By Emily Stewart

The connections between Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein, and the National Enquirer, explained

By Anna North

Zuckerberg isn’t done answering questions about Facebook’s political ads policy

By Peter Kafka

Facebook banned more fake Russian and Iranian accounts

By Peter Kafka

How propaganda works in the digital age

By Sean Illing