Media

WHYY has acquired the digital news startup Billy Penn from Spirited Media. Public media companies have snapped up several such sites in recent years.

Facebook said it "mistakenly deleted" posts by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, but also changed how it archives corporate announcements and blog posts that makes them harder to find.

Former candidate for Georgia governor Stacey Abrams discussed the future of the Democratic party in appearance on Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane.

In my perpetual and often fruitless search for upbeat news, I've discovered the sworn deposition of Alex Jones.

Ads on Facebook promised homeowners they were eligible for huge state tax breaks if they installed solar-energy panels. There was just one catch: None of it was true.

It can be frustrating when viewers try to figure out which service has what they want to watch — Netflix, Prime, Hulu? Even more streaming sites are launching this year.

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.

The change is driven in part by the new Democratic majority in the House, along with younger and more tech-savvy lawmakers in both parties.

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.

Maryland’s highest court, in a split 4-3 decision, ruled that there will be no new trial for convicted killer Adnan Syed.

Chelsea Manning, the former Army private, is back in U.S. federal custody, jailed over her refusal to testify in a case involving WikiLeaks and Julian Assange.

Facebook announced on Thursday it is taking steps to combat the spread of anti-vaccine information across the social media platform.