- Court Won't Revive Challenge To Minnesota Deep Fake Law
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, April 1, 2026
A federal appellate court this week refused to revive a challenge ...
- Unscripted Troubles Started Long Before 'The Bachelorette'
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, April 2, 2026
TV networks and streamers are spending more on high-priced sports programming, wi ...
- Google Pressured To Stop Serving AI Video To Kids
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, April 1, 2026
Child development experts are pressuring Google to stop serving AI-generated videos ...
- Cox Not Liable For Subscribers' Piracy, SCOTUS Rules
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 25, 2026
"A company is not liable as a copyright infringer for merely providi ...
- OpenAI Dumps Sora - Will Disney Find Another Way?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, March 26, 2026
Analysts believe OpenAI is looking to dramatically cut back big, money-losing futu ...
- 'The Bachelorette' Pulled: Brands Buying Into Iffy Future Unscripted Content?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, March 23, 2026
"Unscripted" TV shows are a challenge for brands, especially ones following real-li ...
- Google Develops Opt-Out Search Generative AI Feature For U.K.
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, March 18, 2026
In its response to the U.K.'s Competition and Markets Authority's goals, Goog ...
- YouTube Brings AI Likeness Detection To Journalists, Civic Leaders
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Tuesday, March 10, 2026
YouTube has expanded the application of its likeness-detection tech to a sma ...
- Social Media Researchers Sue Trump Admin Over 'Campaign Of Censorship'
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Monday, March 9, 2026
The administration is unconstitutionally targeting green card holders and other noncitizens f ...
- Meta Sued For Using Smart Glasses To Collect X-Rated User Content
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Thursday, March 5, 2026
Meta is being sued for allegedly collecting sensitive content from users ...
- Instagram Faces Backlash Due To 'Shop The Look' Recommendations
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Monday, March 2, 2026
Creators are feeling deceived by Instagram's "Shop the Look" AI-powered shopping tes ...
- AI Deception Is Hard To Track, Microsoft Study Says
Around the Net In Media, Ray Schultz - Friday, February 20, 2026
Determining whether online content is real is increasingly complex in this a ...
- Not In Our Back Yard: Publishers Block Wayback Machine
Publishing Insider, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, February 18, 2026
They are afraid the Wayback Machine is serving as a back do ...
- Oklahoma Moves To Limit AI Images Of Real People
Around the Net In Media, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Lawmakers on Tuesday unanimously advanced a bill that would criminalize creating artifici ...
- AI 'Slop' In A Word
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Marketers have been calling out AI "slop" found in articles, blogs a ...
- NetChoice Backs Yelp In Fight With Texas Over 'Crisis Pregnancy Center' Warnings
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Monday, February 16, 2026
The tech industry group NetChoice is weighing in against Texas Attorney Gener ...
- Texas Claims Snapchat Deceives Parents
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claims in a new lawsuit that Sn ...
- Government Investigations Into X's Grok Chatbot Multiply
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Days after French police raided X's Paris offices, Elon Musk's social med ...
- Civil Rights Groups Weigh In Against Arkansas Social Media Law
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, January 28, 2026
The Arkansas Social Media Safety Act "will block minors and adults fr ...
- Amazon Finds Child Sex Abuse Material In AI Training Data
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, January 29, 2026
Amazon reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children th ...
- No View Vs. AI Overviews: Google Announces An Opt-Out Policy
Publishing Insider, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, January 28, 2026
Google is exploring ways to allow content producers to opt out ...
- TikTok Faces Backlash, Outages Following Ownership Change
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Monday, January 26, 2026
In the first few days under new ownership, the U.S. version ...
- Meta Pauses Teen Use Of AI Companions
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Friday, January 23, 2026
Meta has announced it is temporarily pausing teens' access to the company ...
- NewsGuard Fights FTC's 'Retaliatory' Demand For Information
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Friday, January 23, 2026
"NewsGuard's activities - including its reliability ratings and its other journalistic endeavo ...
- YouTube To Allow Parents To Block Kids From Watching 'Shorts'
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Wednesday, January 14, 2026
As Australia and other countries around the world pass laws that b ...
- New Jersey Bill Seeks To Control Diet Ads Aimed At Children In Social Media
Around the Net In Media, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, January 13, 2026
A New Jersey bill set for passage would prevent media companies fr ...
- Google And TikTok Face Appeal In Suit Over 'Choking Challenge' Videos
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Monday, January 12, 2026
Parents who unsuccessfully sued Google and TikTok over "choking videos" and oth ...
- X Limits Grok AI Image Generation To Paying Subs
MediaDailyNews, Colin Kirkland - Friday, January 9, 2026
While the official Grok app allows anyone to generate AI images f ...
- X Revenue Falls By 60% In The UK Due To Content Concerns
Around the Net In Media, Ray Schultz - Friday, January 9, 2026
Elon Musk’s X has suffered a 60% decline in UK revenue ...
- Youth Sells, Until It Doesn't: AARP Study Calls Out Media's Age Blind Spot
Research Intelligencer, Rob Williams - Friday, January 9, 2026
Hollywood's long-standing youth obsession (now reinforced by algorithms, AI-assisted development tools a ...