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 ...

Social media apps have long been accused of being harmful to children. Now those claims will come before a jury for the first time in a trial kicking off Tuesday in a Los Angeles courtroom. A key ...

As 2025 ends, the media landscape stands as a mirror of a year marked by political upheaval, cultural flashpoints, and a rapid evolution in how Americans consume information. From headline-dominating ...

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, ...

President Donald Trump has implemented several measures to curb the movement of foreign travellers in recent months. Some tourists will be mandated to provide five years of their social media history ...

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 ...

Cat Murphy, a college student, has wanted to be a journalist since she was 11. Many of her friends don’t understand why. When they engage with the news — if they do — they hear a cacophony of voices.

Artificial intelligence is already blurring how we think about what is real, even when we know the truth. A recent study at UC Davis had AI chatbots send messages to people’s phones to remind them to ...

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 ...