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Comedian Sarah Silverman and The Times’s Kevin Roose, Sheera Frenkel and Davey Alba explore how disinformation spreads, and how we can fight back.

As of December 2020, The Journal had 2.46 million digital-only subscriptions. It aims to double that number by June 2024.Credit...Devin Oktar Yalkin for The New York TimesA special team led by a high-level manager says Rupert Murdoch’s paper must evolve to survive. But a rivalry between editor and publisher stands i...

The deal with News Corp follows a standoff over legislation passed by the Australian government to compensate publishers.

The Journalism and Competition Preservation Act aims to give smaller news publishers the ability to band together to bargain with online platforms for higher fees for distributing their content.

As part of the cutbacks, BuzzFeed closed HuffPost Canada and announced plans to decrease the size of its operations in Australia and Britain.

Is the mania for subscriptions a choice, or the only path in an ad system dominated by giants?

The move puts the social network squarely on the side of Myanmar’s pro-democracy movement after years of criticism over how the military has used the site.

The agreement means users and publishers in Australia can once again share links to news articles, after Facebook had blocked the practice last week.

With Australia moving to make the tech companies pay for news, Facebook took a hard line, while Google has struck deals to pay publishers.

The decision is in response to a proposed law in the country that would require tech companies to pay publishers for linking to stories across their platforms.

The decision is in response to a proposed law in the country that would require tech companies to pay publishers for linking to stories across their platforms.

Pathbreaking legislation showed that even a small nation can get the tech giant to bend. But the United States seems unlikely to follow.

News feeds will start getting less political content in Canada, Brazil and Indonesia, the social network said, with the change reaching the U.S. in coming weeks.

The move, which applies to anti-vaccine posts unrelated to Covid as well, targets unpaid posts to the site and particularly Facebook pages and groups.

A covert online push to sway telecommunications policy in favor of the Chinese company may presage a new twist in social manipulation.

The big tech platforms are facing a challenge unlike any other as Australia moves to make them pay for news.