- 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 ...
- YouTube Removes Palestinian Human Rights Groups' Content
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Friday, November 7, 2025
YouTube has quietly deleted hundreds of videos that belong to three promine ...
- Motion Picture Association Warns Meta To Stop Using 'PG-13' Ratings
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, November 5, 2025
The Motion Picture Association has issued a cease-and-desist letter to Meta, warni ...
- NY Battles X's Musk Over Content Moderation Law
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, November 4, 2025
New York Attorney General Letitia James is urging a federal judge ...
- Pinterest Intros AI-Powered Recommendations
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Pinterest is introducing new in-feed AI-powered product recommendations, in an effort ...
- AI Assistants Provide Answers Full Of Errors, Study Says
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Almost half of all AI answers had at least one significant issu ...
- Instagram Begins 'PG-13' Content Restrictions For Teen Accounts
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Instagram has announced its teen accounts will now "be guided by PG- ...
- Tech Industry, Rights Groups Urge Court To Block Mississippi Parental Consent Law
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Thursday, October 9, 2025
The law "imposes sweeping, content-based restrictions on online social media websites, includi ...
- Besting The Bots: Most Publishing Firms Are Failing At Detection
Publishing Insider, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Few sites are fully protected, DataDome reports in its 2025 security st ...
- Affiliate Bypass Television
TVBlog, Joe Mandese - Friday, September 26, 2025
If you look at the history of strained network/affiliate relationships, ABC h ...
- Britannica, Merriam-Webster Sue Perplexity For Alleged Copyright Infringement
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, September 11, 2025
The plaintiffs accuse Perplexity of "cannibalizing traffic" to their websites. ...
- Real Simple Justice: New Standard Seeks Payment For AI Content Scraping, Usage
Publishing Insider, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Real Simple Licensing will allow publishers to add machine-readable licensing and royal ...
- Bluesky Blocks Mississippi Users
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Sunday, August 24, 2025
"The Supreme Court's recent decision leaves us facing a hard reality: comp ...
- Search Found Indexing Grok Chats Too, Same Mistakes As ChatGPT
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Human conversations with Grok have surfaced in search results, with content rangi ...
- xAI Developing 'Conspiracy Theorist' Companions, And More
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Several companion model prototypes could soon become available including a doctor, therapis ...
- TikTok Takes Clearer Stance Against AI Misinformation
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Friday, August 15, 2025
TikTok has introduced updates to its Community Guidelines, providing clearer language regardi ...
- Meta AI Companions Reportedly Getting 'Sensual' With Kids
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Thursday, August 14, 2025
An internal Meta document acquired by Reuters shows Meta allows its chatb ...