- Social Media Researchers Sue Trump Admin Over 'Campaign Of Censorship'
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 9, 2026
The administration is unconstitutionally targeting green card holders and other noncitizens f ...
- Meta Sued For Using Smart Glasses To Collect X-Rated User Content
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Thursday, March 5, 2026
Meta is being sued for allegedly collecting sensitive content from users ...
- Instagram Faces Backlash Due To 'Shop The Look' Recommendations
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Monday, March 2, 2026
Creators are feeling deceived by Instagram's "Shop the Look" AI-powered shopping tes ...
- AI Deception Is Hard To Track, Microsoft Study Says
Around the Net In Media, Ray Schultz - Friday, February 20, 2026
Determining whether online content is real is increasingly complex in this a ...
- Not In Our Back Yard: Publishers Block Wayback Machine
Publishing Insider, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, February 18, 2026
They are afraid the Wayback Machine is serving as a back do ...
- Oklahoma Moves To Limit AI Images Of Real People
Around the Net In Media, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Lawmakers on Tuesday unanimously advanced a bill that would criminalize creating artifici ...
- AI 'Slop' In A Word
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Marketers have been calling out AI "slop" found in articles, blogs a ...
- NetChoice Backs Yelp In Fight With Texas Over 'Crisis Pregnancy Center' Warnings
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Monday, February 16, 2026
The tech industry group NetChoice is weighing in against Texas Attorney Gener ...
- Texas Claims Snapchat Deceives Parents
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claims in a new lawsuit that Sn ...
- Government Investigations Into X's Grok Chatbot Multiply
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Days after French police raided X's Paris offices, Elon Musk's social med ...
- Civil Rights Groups Weigh In Against Arkansas Social Media Law
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, January 28, 2026
The Arkansas Social Media Safety Act "will block minors and adults fr ...
- Amazon Finds Child Sex Abuse Material In AI Training Data
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, January 29, 2026
Amazon reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children th ...
- No View Vs. AI Overviews: Google Announces An Opt-Out Policy
Publishing Insider, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Google is exploring ways to allow content producers to opt out ...
- TikTok Faces Backlash, Outages Following Ownership Change
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Monday, January 26, 2026
In the first few days under new ownership, the U.S. version ...
- Meta Pauses Teen Use Of AI Companions
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Friday, January 23, 2026
Meta has announced it is temporarily pausing teens' access to the company ...
- NewsGuard Fights FTC's 'Retaliatory' Demand For Information
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Friday, January 23, 2026
"NewsGuard's activities - including its reliability ratings and its other journalistic endeavo ...
- YouTube To Allow Parents To Block Kids From Watching 'Shorts'
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, January 14, 2026
As Australia and other countries around the world pass laws that b ...
- New Jersey Bill Seeks To Control Diet Ads Aimed At Children In Social Media
Around the Net In Media, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, January 13, 2026
A New Jersey bill set for passage would prevent media companies fr ...
- Google And TikTok Face Appeal In Suit Over 'Choking Challenge' Videos
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Monday, January 12, 2026
Parents who unsuccessfully sued Google and TikTok over "choking videos" and oth ...
- X Limits Grok AI Image Generation To Paying Subs
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Friday, January 9, 2026
While the official Grok app allows anyone to generate AI images f ...
- X Revenue Falls By 60% In The UK Due To Content Concerns
Around the Net In Media, Ray Schultz - Friday, January 9, 2026
Elon Musk’s X has suffered a 60% decline in UK revenue ...
- Youth Sells, Until It Doesn't: AARP Study Calls Out Media's Age Blind Spot
Research Intelligencer, Robert Williams - Friday, January 9, 2026
Hollywood's long-standing youth obsession (now reinforced by algorithms, AI-assisted development tools a ...
- FTC Presses To Move Forward With Probe Of Media Matters
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, January 7, 2026
The FTC is asking an appellate court to lift an injunction blocki ...
- AI's Sexually Explicit Side Surfaces Via Search, Prompts
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, January 2, 2026
Grok and YouTube have a problem. Sexually explicit AI-generated content based ...
- 2025: A Year In Social Media 'Slop'
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, December 31, 2025
When Merriam-Webster announced its Word of the Year was "slop," it ma ...
- Arkansas Social Media Law Likely Violates First Amendment, Judge Rules
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, December 16, 2025
A federal judge has blocked enforcement of an Arkansas law that wou ...
- Anthropic, Block, OpenAI Form Agentic Foundation To Ensure Open Sourcing
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Anthropic, Block, OpenAI and other AI-tech companies recently launched the Agentic ...
- Disney Strikes $1B Deal With OpenAI, Licenses Iconic Characters
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, December 11, 2025
Disney's $1 billion deal with OpenAI would allow fans to create short-fo ...
- 'Vine' Is Back On A New Anti-AI Social Video App
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Thursday, November 13, 2025
Former Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is funding a new mobile app call ...
- TikTok Can't Shake Nevada Suit Over 'Addictive' Design
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Monday, November 10, 2025
Nevada can proceed with a lawsuit alleging that TikTok's design features, su ...