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Do Americans really want “unbiased” news?

By Peter Kafka May 23

The next target of the right’s campaign against woke companies: Fox News?

By Zack Beauchamp May 22

Elon Musk won’t stop tweeting his way into trouble

By Shirin Ghaffary May 20

Instagram’s co-founder explains why he’s starting over

By Shirin Ghaffary May 19

Tucker Carlson’s show is back, and it’s on Twitter

By Sara Morrison and Aja Romano May 10

Why Tucker Carlson’s text message about “white men” matters

By Zack Beauchamp May 4

Why digital media is melting down

By Peter Kafka May 2

The new controversy on the left: Is it okay to say Tucker Carlson had some good ideas?

By Andrew Prokop April 26

No, seriously, why did Fox News fire Tucker Carlson?

By Peter Kafka April 26

8 Updates

Why was Tucker Carlson fired from Fox News?

By Vox Staff April 25

The dramatic end of Don Lemon’s controversial tenure at CNN

By Nicole Narea April 24

RIP, BuzzFeed News. Who’s next?

By Peter Kafka April 20

Fox News won. Dominion won. The rest of us lost.

By Peter Kafka April 19

Why a record-shattering settlement still might not change Fox News

By Nicole Narea April 19

Fox pays $787 million for its 2020 election lies

By Nicole Narea and Andrew Prokop April 18

The multibillion-dollar defamation lawsuits against Fox News, explained

By Nicole Narea, Ian Millhiser, and 1 more April 18

Culture

Trans people deserve better journalism

How the anti-trans movement took over legacy media.

By Aja Romano March 31

The desperate pandering of Tucker Carlson

By Andrew Prokop March 8

Ron DeSantis’s plan to strip First Amendment rights from the press, explained

By Ian Millhiser March 8

“Make Trump a non person”: Rupert Murdoch’s Ron DeSantis pivot, explained by a legal filing

By Andrew Prokop February 28

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

By Peter Kafka February 16

The case for better-seats-cost-more movie tickets

By Peter Kafka February 10

Sean Hannity’s damning deposition in the Fox News defamation lawsuit, explained

By Nicole Narea December 22, 2022

Elon Musk’s Twitter journalist purge has begun

By Shirin Ghaffary December 16, 2022

The people who hate Sam Bankman-Fried the most

By Peter Kafka December 7, 2022

Twitter’s ad problem is Elon Musk

By Peter Kafka November 10, 2022

Ben Smith’s Semafor is live. He says it will take 10 years to get it right.

By Peter Kafka October 26, 2022

Welcome to Netflix — with ads

By Peter Kafka October 13, 2022

The mysterious ad slump of 2022

By Peter Kafka September 28, 2022

Who owns what in Big Media today

By Rani Molla and Peter Kafka September 21, 2022

Why Disney didn’t buy Twitter

By Peter Kafka September 7, 2022

Where we’re spending our screentime, in 3 charts

By Peter Kafka and Rani Molla August 31, 2022

Meet the billionaire who loves Fox News and owns a piece of CNN

By Peter Kafka August 26, 2022

Did CNN’s Brian Stelter lose his job because of politics or money?

By Peter Kafka August 18, 2022

House of the Dragon is coming to HBO. So is the Netflix Chill.

By Peter Kafka August 17, 2022

How Facebook helped Axios sell for $500 million

By Peter Kafka August 9, 2022

The newsletter boom is over. What’s next?

By Peter Kafka August 3, 2022

The January 6 hearings brought politics into the TikTok age

By Peter Kafka July 27, 2022

Here’s what Netflix execs think about the Netflix problem

By Peter Kafka July 20, 2022

Netflix slips and Hollywood cheers. Maybe it shouldn’t.

By Peter Kafka June 1, 2022