• Social Media Companies Are Having a Bad Moment

    Nick H. Penniman What if it were the start of a movement?

  • When Facebook blocks news, studies show the political risks that follow

    'The ambient presence of journalism and true information in our feeds, the signals of reliability that were there, that's gone,' Taylor Owen, founding director of McGill University's Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy, says

  • Trump Media shares tank after company says it could sell more stock

    Shares of Donald Trump's social media company slumped 12% on Monday, extending their string of losses, after the company said in a regulatory filing that it could sell millions of additional shares in coming months.

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    The filing showed a potential sale of 146.1 million shares including 114.8 million shares owned by Trump himself.

    .Trump's media company raises going-concern doubts; shares tumble.

    It also listed an additional 21.5 million shares that could be sold upon the exercise of...

  • When Facebook blocks news, studies show the political risks that follow

    Since Meta blocked links to news in Canada last August to avoid paying fees to media companies, right-wing meme producer Jeff Ballingall says he has seen a surge in clicks for his Canada Proud Facebook page. Our numbers are growing and we're reaching more and more people every day, said Ballingall, who publishes up to 10 posts a day and has some 540,000 followers. Media is just going to get more tribal and more niche, he added. This is just igniting it further. Canada has become ground...

  • FLASHBACK: When a Juvenile News Media Tried to Destroy the Tea Party

    Fifteen years ago this week (April 15, 2009), the grassroots Tea Party movement rallied to oppose the massive government programs (bailouts, ObamaCare) pushed by new President Barack Obama. In response, left-wing cable networks employed adolescent jokes to belittle the movement, while the broadcast networks decried it as a front for “corporate interests.” The media putdowns failed, of course. The following November, the energy supplied by the Tea Party contributed to a “shellacking” of...

  • FLASHBACK: When a Juvenile News Media Tried to Destroy the Tea Party

    Fifteen years ago this week (April 15, 2009), the grassroots Tea Party movement rallied to oppose the massive government programs (bailouts, ObamaCare) pushed by new President Barack Obama. In response, left-wing cable networks employed adolescent jokes to belittle the movement, while the broadcast networks decried it as a front for “corporate interests.” The media putdowns failed, of course. The following November, the energy supplied by the Tea Party contributed to a “shellacking” of...

  • Memo to Joe: Guess which big companies are not paying their ‘fair share’?

    Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore, April 10, 2024 President Joe Biden keeps lecturing corporate America to “pay your fair share” of taxes. It turns out he’s right that some companies really are getting away scot-free from paying taxes. But it isn’t Big Tech companies in Silicon Valley or the Wall Street financial company “fat […]

  • China investment in Australia sinks as companies favour Belt and Road

    New Zealand's government made immediate changes to an employment visa

  • Meta briefly blocked a local news organization critical of Facebook

    Meta blocked a local paper that published a column criticizing Facebook. The tech giant said it was accidental.

  • CBS Evening News Frets Over Caitlin Clark’s Rookie Pay

    The CBS Evening News has now entered into the national discussion over the disparity in pay between the NBA and the WNBA, bringing advocacy to the discussion of whether female athletes are automatically entitled to the same compensation as their male counterparts while ignoring market dynamics. Here is that report in its entirety, as aired on the CBS Evening News on Wednesday, April 17th, 2024 (click “expand” to view full transcript): NORAH O’DONNELL: Basketball sensation Caitlin Clark...

  • CBS Evening News Frets Over Caitlin Clark’s Rookie Pay

    The CBS Evening News has now entered into the national discussion over the disparity in pay between the NBA and the WNBA, bringing advocacy to the discussion of whether female athletes are automatically entitled to the same compensation as their male counterparts while ignoring market dynamics. Here is that report in its entirety, as aired on the CBS Evening News on Wednesday, April 17th, 2024 (click “expand” to view full transcript): NORAH O’DONNELL: Basketball sensation Caitlin Clark...