The Death of BuzzFeed News Was a Facebook Murder-Suicide
Online media companies got exactly what they said they wanted.
Online media companies got exactly what they said they wanted.
The HBO movie muddies important distinctions.
Weaponization of the federal government, indeed
Critics argue that excessively strict pleading standards prevent plaintiffs with meritorious defamation claims from obtaining the evidence they need to support them.
"The truth matters," says Dominion Voting Systems, and "lies have consequences."
Evan Gershkovich was arrested in Russia last month on espionage charges. If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in a penal colony.
Pretrial rulings recognized the falsity of the election-fraud claims that the outlet aired and rejected three of its defenses.
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Eye-opening insights into the messy motivations behind restrictive COVID-19 responses.
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Members of Congress showed their true colors at a Thursday hearing.
Video footage and arrest data indicate that most of the Trump supporters who invaded the building did not commit violent crimes.
Contrary to the Supreme Court's First Amendment precedents, Donald Trump thinks harsh criticism of the president should be actionable.
In an interview, Chris Stirewalt contends that Fox is "not…willing to suffer the consequences of being a news organization."
Although Rupert Murdoch admits that Lou Dobbs and other hosts "endorsed" the "stolen election" narrative, Fox's lawyers insist that is not true.
Time and time again, so-called disinformation watchdogs fail their own tests—the lab leak is just the latest example.
"The bill is an aggressive and blatantly unconstitutional attempt to rewrite defamation law in a manner that protects the powerful from criticism by journalists and the public," said one attorney.
The Fox Business host stood out as a champion of the baroque conspiracy theory that implicated Dominion Voting Systems in election fraud.
Hosts and producers privately called Trump lawyer Sidney Powell's claims "complete bs," "insane," and "unbelievably offensive."
Reason talks with the transgender historian who used the term to describe a revolutionary gender-affirming treatment for teens.
In an open letter, they condemned the paper's coverage of trans issues. But their note is more about what questions journalists are not allowed to ask.
A government-supported organization's controversial ratings of online news sources illustrate the challenge of deciding what qualifies as disinformation.
Reason is listed among the "ten riskiest online news outlets" by a government-funded disinfo tracker.
The botched pursuit of the Russiagate story illustrates how the media shed credibility.
Deepfakes aren't nearly as dangerous as the tried-and-true technique of saying something misleading with the imprimatur of authority.
Priscilla Villarreal's case will be heard again tomorrow at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. She has attracted some unlikely supporters.
Content-generating A.I. will probably enhance human labor rather than make it obsolete.
The Population Bomber has never been right, but is never in doubt that the world is coming to its end.
The year’s highlights in buck passing feature petulant politicians, brazen bureaucrats, careless cops, loony lawyers, and junky journalists.
A law to protect people engaged in journalism from having to reveal sources gets blocked by Sen. Tom Cotton.
RIP to a prolific and colorful Reason contributor and author.
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Another officer claims to have been laid out just by being close to the drug. That’s not how it works.
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Ain't it grand to have a resilient libertarian journal of opinion?
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The Justice Department’s discretion is the only thing that protects them from a similar fate.
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The mainstream coverage of SBF and FTX is more than a little blasé.
Journalists who sound the alarm about Russian propaganda are unfazed by the lack of evidence that it has a meaningful impact.
Priscilla Villarreal found herself in a jail cell for publishing two routine stories. A federal court still can't decide what to do about that.
The unsubstantiated threat that strangers with cannabis candy allegedly pose to trick-or-treaters is an urban legend that never dies.
Meanwhile more and more Americans say that they are avoiding news coverage.
Influential media critic Margaret Sullivan demonstrates the perils of letting narrative get ahead of verification.
Even though no one's trying to give your kid rainbow fentanyl this Halloween, it hasn't stopped journalists from repeating the myth.
Regular people are not so terminally online.
An emphasis on corruption and enforcement downplays the very real influence of regulation and taxes on California's booming black market.
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