Media

This week Marketplace Tech is looking at how an online troll becomes a terrorist and how people are recruited and radicalized online through social media.

Facebook will overhaul its ad-targeting systems to prevent discrimination in housing, credit and employment ads as part of a legal settlement.

With all that’s going on in the world—from climate change to wanton violence and political turmoil—I simply don’t have the energy to watch Saturday Night Live. 

Critics say giving the assailants notoriety offers little to help understand the attacks and instead fuels celebrity-style coverage that encourages future attacks.

A man who said he was cleaning out an old videotape collection found a video that appears to be R. Kelly sexually abusing girls, he and his attorney said Sunday.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he's shifting his company's focus to messaging services designed to serve as fortresses of privacy.

A lawsuit claiming "an illegal and bad-faith takeover" of the Miss America Organization was withdrawn Monday for financial reasons.

An early shaper of public radio’s sound and mission, Bill Siemering created shows that remain popular decades after their launch. Now he helps spread radio across the globe.

A new study shows that health-related searches spike in the week before a hospital visit — and how analyzing that data could improve patient care.

A winter of discontent for the Academy Awards will culminate Sunday in an Oscar ceremony that may lack a host but isn't missing intrigue.

A stranger lip-syncing to one of her songs in South Africa has propelled a Philadelphia singer to resume her career.

The National Enquirer's alleged attempt to blackmail Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos with intimate photos could get the tabloid's parent company and top editors in deep legal trouble.

A Philadelphia production team released an online documentary on Shudder, tracking a century of black representation in the bloodiest of genres.

"Movers & Makers" intends to pull back the curtain, showing the region, people and places that you might not know about. It premieres Thursday night at 9 on WHYY-TV.

Advocates for a free press are challenging an Interior Department proposal to limit requests for access to public records under the federal Freedom of Information Act.