Meta reportedly considering Europe political ads ban
Facebook owner weighing up move amid fears it could struggle to abide by new EU laws, say reports
Angry Fox News chief said fact-checks of Trump’s election lies ‘bad for business’
Suzanne Scott wrote in December 2020 that on-air fact-checks ‘have to stop’, messages obtained from $1.6bn Dominion lawsuit reveal
Twitter to no longer only promote paid-for accounts after backlash
Elon Musk says he ‘forgot to mention’ other users would be visible on ‘for you’ timeline as well
Twitter to promote only paying users’ tweets, Elon Musk announces
From 15 April, ‘For you’ tab that curates popular posts will feature just Twitter Blue subscribers
Twitter takes legal action after source code leaked online
Elon Musk-owned platform demands that GitHub identifies who posted parts of its code
Elon Musk memo suggests Twitter worth less than half of what he paid for it
Calculation based on leaked offer to staff that implies firm valued at $20bn compared with $44bn he bought it for
Why Dominion is already the winner of the $1.6bn lawsuit against Fox News
Messages proving network hosts and executives knew what they were saying was false and ‘reckless’ are now on record forever
A month on, John Lethlean’s ‘sexist’ restaurant review is still coming back to bite
Lethlean maintains he is ‘not a sexist’ after backlash over remarks on female server’s clothing and says he ‘would have said the same about a bloke’
Peaky Blinders creator launches construction of new film and TV studio
Steven Knight’s Digbeth Loc. Studios in Birmingham will house ska drama This Town, UB40 and Peaky Blinders film
ITV chief executive Carolyn McCall was paid £3.5m last year
Sum represents 7% increase on previous pay package as staff at broadcaster received average 3% rise
Mirror and Express publisher warns that up to 420 staff are at risk of redundancy
Reach, which also owns Birmingham Mail, Liverpool Echo and Manchester Evening News, aims to cut costs
How did Everything Everywhere All At Once sweep the Oscars?
A combination of old fashioned star power and zeitgeisty marketing captured Oscar voters (and audiences) across the board
The Observer city editor at the centre of the 1980s battle over Harrods
Melvyn Marckus led investigations into big business scandals in the 1980s and 90s at Asil Nadir’s Polly Peck and the Bank of Credit & Commerce International
In WhatsApp world, everyone can hear you scream
End-to-end encryption does not prevent wall-to-wall media coverage, as many prominent users have discovered to their cost
CITV channel to close as ITV makes most children’s shows online-only
Broadcaster says children’s TV audiences have largely moved to YouTube and other streaming services