Peter Kafka

An interview with Times reporter and author Mike Isaac, on covering a titanic battle and being used as leverage in that battle.

YouTube will pay $170 million to settle charges it violated kids’ privacy and a 1998 law. That’s a pittance.

Milo Yiannopoulos and his right-wing peers seemed state of the art in 2016. CNN’s Oliver Darcy talks about what changed since then.

That means the video platform is okay with “content that is outside the mainstream, controversial, or even offensive.”

Shari Redstone’s plan to compete with Netflix, Apple, and Disney: Merge CBS and Viacom, then try to combine with … someone else.

Everyone else is doing it, so Facebook is trying it, too. The company says it’s a test, available only to US users.

The agency that slapped a $5 billion fine on Mark Zuckerberg’s company isn’t finished yet.

It’s a giant fine. And the company will have to employ many more lawyers. But Facebook will be happy if this is as bad as it gets.