That’s a lot of cat videos. YouTube has been crowned the world’s largest media company, riding a years-long wave of user-generated videos — including millions of cat videos — to surge past even Walt ...

LOS ANGELES — In closing arguments for the first social media addiction trial to make tech giants face a jury, the plaintiff's lawyer lambasted social platforms for profiting from users' attention, ...

Mr. Wu is a law professor who studies how companies manipulate customers, extract wealth and deepen inequality. See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra cobertura en ...

Closing arguments began Thursday in a landmark trial that put online behavior under a microscope. In many ways, it has already been decided. Credit...Hokyoung Kim Supported by By David Streitfeld ...

LinkedIn is facing two lawsuits over its practice of scanning users’ browsers to determine which extensions they’re running.

Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. The poet and critic Randall Jarrell once said that a poet is someone who “manages ...

Telling people exactly how voting security works helps defeat election misinformation, experiments suggest. But outside experts question how well that works in the real world ...

If you don’t know how to use media, media will use you. The Department of Film and Media Studies helps students become thoughtful viewers and skillful producers of moving image media—a cultural force ...

Media layoffs across the entertainment industry are hitting hard after last year’s avalanche of job cuts. The unfortunate trend can still be felt following the Covid-19 pandemic, dual Hollywood ...

A California jury on Wednesday found that Meta and Google were to blame for the depression and anxiety of a woman who compulsively used social media as a small child, awarding her $6 million in a rare ...

After son's suicide, mother says social media platforms are built to addict children Maurine Molach lost her son, David, in 2016 when he died by suicide. She is the co-founder of Parents for Safe ...