Editorial: The Trump administration’s initial reaction to the shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis shows how the incentives created by social media are distorting truth and undermining ...

Every design choice that social media platforms make nudges users toward certain actions, values and emotional states. It is a design choice to offer a news feed that combines verified news sources ...

Western news coverage often promotes Iran’s regime, ignoring citizens fighting for democracy and freedom.

In A Nutshell AI swarms can create the illusion of widespread agreement by coordinating thousands of human-like accounts. This “synthetic consensus” exploits how people rely on social cues to form ...

New research led by Western Sydney University, in collaboration with the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and Wesley College Melbourne, reveals how Australia's major print newspapers have played ...

In a functioning democracy, citizens need reliable information to make informed decisions. But a troubling question looms over Ghana’s media landscape: how can people evaluate the reliability of ...

In 2024, the Democrats ran on the catchphrase “We are not going back.” Even after the party’s resounding defeat, the refrain may have been more prophetic than they imagined. New research shows that ...

Paramount’s settlement with Trump is a symptom of deep structural rot in our corporate media system. Ad Policy President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after signing a proclamation in the Oval ...

University of Salford provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. The proposed reorganisation of council boundaries was probably not the issue which prompted British voters to elect ...

The academic and activist inspired generations of people to challenge corporate power and support a media reform movement that lives on. Bob McChesney on Moyers & Company in 2013. Bob McChesney, who ...

Mitigation hearings for Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon, Jimmy Lai, concluded on Tuesday, in the final step before the court hands down a sentence in the landmark national security case. Lai's ...