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The Supreme Court on Friday waded into the divisive issue of online censorship by agreeing to decide the constitutionality of laws in Florida and Texas that seek to prevent social media companies from banning users for contentious ...

The police chief who led a highly criticized raid of the small Kansas newspaper, the Marion County Record, has been suspended, the mayor confirmed Saturday. (AP) Mayor David Mayfield suspended the chief, Gideon Cody, indefinitely, ...

Happy pups prevailed at the domestic box office this weekend as Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie scared off Saw X and The Creator with $23 million from 3,989 theaters in a needed win for the family marketplace. (THR) The newest advent ...

Former ABC News producer James Gordon Meek was sentenced to six years in prison Friday for the transportation and possession of child sexual abuse material. (The Daily Beast) Meek pleaded guilty in July to possessing explicit imag ...

Letterboxd has been acquired by Tiny, a Canadian holding company, in a deal that values the popular social site for film fanatics at over $50 million. (Variety) Letterboxd has been around since 2011, founded by Matthew Buchanan an ...

A senior Google executive once likened the company’s search advertising business to selling drugs, calling it “one of the world’s greatest business models ever created” since the company can “ignore” users and focus on ...

One year after the Daily Beast launched Obsessed, its vertical dedicated to coverage of television and film, the section has topped seven figures in advertising revenue and seen an uptick in readership, according to president of a ...

Malcolm Gladwell is laying off staffers from his podcasting studio a year after the best-selling author sparked anger on social media by tearfully pleading with Americans to return to the office. (NY Post)

Publishers can now opt out of having their data used to train Google’s AI models such as Bard. (Adweek)

German media company Axel Springer has officially expressed interest in buying the Telegraph, prompting the prospect of a bidding war for the newspaper group. (The Guardian)