How to win friends and influencers: Labour’s new social media strategy is a step into the future

There was a backlash when No 10 invited online content creators inside its doors. But in a fast-changing media landscape, this solves two problems at once, says deputy Opinion editor Kirsty Major

FCC chair Brendan Carr says media were ‘lied to’ over Stephen Colbert controversy

Carr says the Federal Communications Commission has also opened an enforcement action into ABC’s the View

Warner Bros gives Paramount seven days to make ‘best and final’ offer

Waiver from Netflix allows film company to engage with rival bidder if it could lead to a ‘reasonably superior offer’

UK ad agencies undergo their biggest exodus of staff as AI threatens industry

Number of employees declined by more than 14% to 24,963 last year, with fall greatest among younger workers

‘It’s like two divorcing parents’: how actors’ union Equity fell out with casting directory Spotlight

Union to appeal after losing case against historic talent index in battle that could reshape UK acting landscape

TikTok could be forced to change app’s ‘addictive design’ by European Commission

Preliminary EU ruling says app shifts brains of users into ‘autopilot mode’, with concerns for children and vulnerable adults

‘Tickets have become status symbols’: from Harry Styles to Taylor Swift, why is live music bigger and more expensive than ever?

Styles is playing a record 12 nights at Wembley Stadium and 30 at Madison Square Garden, as demand for big artists soars – and audience expectation along with it

Bald eagles and Lynyrd Skynyrd: is Budweiser’s all-American Super Bowl ad serious?

Featuring an unlikely animal friendship, the commercial boasts enough patriotic iconography to verge on self-parody

Hollywood money fuelled record £2.8bn spend on UK film production last year

Growth could slow as Netflix pulls back projects to US to secure $80bn takeover of Warner Bros Discovery

Mass layoffs fuel fears of ‘death spiral’ at Washington Post

On Wednesday, storied newspaper axed nearly one-third of company after earlier unpopular moves by owner Jeff Bezos

‘It’s an absolute bloodbath’: Washington Post lays off hundreds of workers

Former Post executive editor blasts owner Jeff Bezos’s ‘sickening efforts to curry favor’ with Trump

Netflix co-CEO grilled by US senators over Warner Bros Discovery merger

While most focused on competition issues, Josh Hawley accused Netflix of promoting trans content to children

Disney names parks and cruises boss Josh D’Amaro as next CEO

D’Amaro will take over next month from Bob Iger, who returned to lead the media company after a bungled succession

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos stays silent as employees brace for cuts

Bezos has not publicly responded to several letters sent by Post staffers urging him to curb potential layoffs

Elon Musk merges SpaceX with xAI at $1.25tn valuation

Aerospace business and artificial intelligence firm to unite for IPO as world’s most valuable private company