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Maria Ressa, the journalist who co-founded Rappler in the Philippines, warns that her country is a “cautionary tale” for the United States.


“His first loyalty was to the audience, to manufacturing outrage, to weaponizing division.”


Should Mark Zuckerberg fire himself? And other tough questions.


They talk about social media’s impact on democracy, how the media has changed under President Trump and who’s running in 2020.


The State Department spokesperson and Fox News anchor will replace Nikki Haley.


Trump attacked the “FAKE NEWS.” That same night, the NYPD was on its way to CNN’s studio.


People in Trump’s West Wing are not always “running around with their hair on fire,” Swan says in this conversation with the New York Times’ Maggie Haberman.


That’s a lotta podcast!


What Bush’s legacy tells us about the modern presidency.


One item: It looks like Facebook discussed ways to use user data access as leverage with other companies.


The streaming media pioneer could lose about a fifth of its content hours.


The most principled resistance to Trump comes from conservatism’s most dangerous faction.


Trump’s lawyer and former cybersecurity adviser seems confused about how hyperlinks work.


The former conservative media star is broke, saddled with as much as $4 million in debt. There’s a reason for that.


Netflix wanted it. So did Hulu. And WarnerMedia wants it back, soon. Probably. Here’s what that means.


“This is not about dwindling subscribers. This is about strip-mining TWS for its assets.”


Hungary forcing out a university founded by George Soros reveals the authoritarian rot inside the modern West.


The Atlantic’s Franklin Foer, author of “World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech,” critiques the tech giants on the latest Recode Decode.


Former GE and NBCUniversal executive Beth Comstock talks about her new book “Imagine It Forward” with Recode’s Kara Swisher.


NYU’s Scott Galloway makes the case for Satya Nadella as “CEO of the year” on the latest episode of Pivot.


The publisher is trying to sell the remainder of the company to Bustle Digital Group.


Sale talks started after Facebook ended a video deal with Mic.


If Hillary Clinton’s emails mattered so much, why shouldn’t Ivanka’s?


The House Democratic leadership team could use a stronger communicator.


The social impact firm makes another media acquisition, this time of the publisher of California Sunday Magazine and Pop-Up Magazine events.


Sean Hannity is helping turn Fox News into a GOP campaign operation.


“You could actually put it on your nachos and eat it.”


Fear-mongering about the migrant caravan is back after clashes over the weekend.


When he was 16, Vargas found out that he is an undocumented immigrant — and after years of secrecy, he decided to “come out.”


Thanksgiving was made for streaming great television with your pants unbuttoned, occasionally groaning about how full you are.


To Shear, watching something for two hours is different from repeatedly opening an app over two hours.


It’s not your imagination: Fires get written about less.


A feud, a lawsuit, and a mutually beneficial relationship.


The executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute, Jameel Jaffer, unpacks the answer on the latest Recode Decode.


A top tech exec thinks we need to slow down the internet a bit. He’s right.


When he tries to do things, it only gets worse.


COO Sheryl Sandberg is also feeling the heat.


What’s going on? We’ve got you covered.


He has no idea what he’s doing, but what else is new?


Reed Hastings wants to compete with YouTube overseas, and the only way it can do that is by offering a free-with-ads option, Green says on Recode Media.