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How MAGA broke the media

By Zack Beauchamp

The Supreme Court will decide if the government can seize control of YouTube and Twitter

By Ian Millhiser

How copyright lawsuits could kill OpenAI

By Adam Clark Estes

How plagiarism became the latest weapon in the culture wars

By Constance Grady

Israel’s wartime assault on the free press

By Nicole Narea

Elon Musk’s attempt to silence his critics will be heard by one of America’s worst judges

By Ian Millhiser

Twitter’s CEO had a wild, combative appearance at the Code conference

By Peter Kafka

Why is Rupert Murdoch leaving his empire now?

By Peter Kafka

Even Elon Musk can’t fully wreck Twitter’s one great superpower

By Peter Kafka

Disney used to hate gambling. Now it’s doing a $2 billion sports betting deal.

By Peter Kafka

The creator of Black Mirror is okay with tech. People, on the other hand ...

By Peter Kafka

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You’re going to see more AI-written articles whether you like it or not

By Peter Kafka

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The ad industry is going all-in on AI

By Shirin Ghaffary

Jesse Watters, Fox News’s new Tucker Carlson, explained

By Sara Morrison

HBO shows are coming to Netflix. Here’s why that matters.

By Peter Kafka

Firing Chris Licht won’t fix CNN

By Peter Kafka

Do Americans really want “unbiased” news?

By Peter Kafka

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

By Zack Beauchamp

Elon Musk won’t stop tweeting his way into trouble

By Shirin Ghaffary

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

By Shirin Ghaffary

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

By Sara Morrison and Aja Romano

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

By Zack Beauchamp

Why digital media is melting down

By Peter Kafka

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

By Andrew Prokop

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

By Peter Kafka

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Why was Tucker Carlson fired from Fox News?

By Vox Staff

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

By Nicole Narea

RIP, BuzzFeed News. Who’s next?

By Peter Kafka

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

By Peter Kafka

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

By Nicole Narea

Fox pays $787 million for its 2020 election lies

By Nicole Narea and Andrew Prokop

The multibillion-dollar defamation lawsuits against Fox News, explained

By Nicole Narea, Ian Millhiser, and 1 more

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Trans people deserve better journalism

How the anti-trans movement took over legacy media.

By Aja Romano

The desperate pandering of Tucker Carlson

By Andrew Prokop

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

By Ian Millhiser

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

By Andrew Prokop

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

By Peter Kafka

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

By Peter Kafka

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

By Nicole Narea

Elon Musk’s Twitter journalist purge has begun

By Shirin Ghaffary

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