The Media Equation

The co-founder of CrowdTangle has been working with Congress on legislation to make tech companies disclose their inner workings.

“I have zero desire to be involved in politics,” says Brandon Brown, the NASCAR driver at the center of the “Let’s Go, Brandon!” meme.

It’s the most successful video app in the world. Our columnist has obtained an internal company document that offers a new level of detail about how the algorithm works.

Journalists and academics are developing a new language for truth. The results are not always clearer.

At a moment of political turmoil, economic change and a pandemic-driven focus on how we work, labor has become a hot news beat.

Journalists and tech executives seem to be fighting each other to a draw in a battle that has no end in sight.

In a time of mega-leaks, journalists’ sources have become power players. Frances Haugen, the former Facebook product manager who shared company documents, led a meticulous media rollout.

A high-flying German media giant is ahead on digital media but seems stuck in the past when it comes to the workplace and deal-making.

A writer for an alt-weekly called out a Boston Globe editor for his “fealty” to the idea of objectivity in a column that reads as if it were written yesterday.

The digital media company has raised eyebrows for its claims about its audience size for years. Then came the strange voice on the phone.