Cities have an incentive to shut down social media comments altogether to avoid expensive lawsuits over selectively deleting comments. While many cities cite an increase in profane and abusive ...

Inside the free-for-all arenas of Instagram and TikTok, audiences have spent the last few weeks watching two box-office content creators engage in battle. Since Call Her Daddy host Alex Cooper posted ...

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi devised a scheme earlier this month to run cover for Department of Justice lawyers who face ethics investigations for how they do their jobs. Bondi wants to hijack the ...

For 30 years, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act has protected online speech, shielding platforms from liability for content posted by third parties. Basically, comments sections, ...

The U.S. announced a raft of new probes into trading partners trading practices. The investigations are targeting China, Mexico, the EU and more than a dozen other economies, and are being carried out ...

Less than a year after some backlash to American Eagle’s decision to enlist actress Sydney Sweeney as the face of its brand, the retailer is reinvesting in its celebrity strategy. Last week, the ...

Michigan State demolished UCLA on Tuesday night, dismantling the Bruins, 82-59. The win was a massive bounce back for the Spartans, who fell to Wisconsin this past Friday. Following the game, Bruins ...

In what many users are calling the latest move in its ongoing battle against ad blockers, YouTube is increasingly displaying missing comments and sometimes even video ...

Some of the funniest people you will encounter aren't always the legendary stand-up comedians that headline the biggest stages. Many of them hide behind usernames, dropping perfectly timed punchlines ...

In the 2010s, news publishers couldn’t shut their comment sections fast enough. The space “below the line” had become a noisy, thankless place to spend your time, where bile and bad-faith arguments ...

Years ago, New York Times columnist Gail Collins visited The Seattle Times newsroom while in town for a speaking engagement. It was at the height of the establishment of the Doctrine against ...