History will tell how consequential Trump’s return to the White House will be, but in the short term at least, it can already ...

An analysis of more than 4 million Facebook posts created by news outlets and political parties in 2024 highlights global social media engagement trends and political polarization during a year which ...

When the media is critical of political failures or difficulties, politicians must be ready to answer for their actions. In covering wider social and political issues, the media can stimulate ...

Dozens of employees who had been working to fight foreign interference in U.S. elections have been reassigned or forced out, ...

Bank analysts found that only 10% of the 126 posts Trump had published this time around on sensitive topics had caused clear currency market moves.

Trump, already the biggest star that social media has ever seen ... fact-check political posts, and, most tellingly, limit Trump’s influence on their platforms—will disappear.

The controversy over TikTok reflects a broader trend — the growing entanglement of technology and politics, as evidenced by ...

TONY BARRY, FORMER POLITICAL STRATEGIST ... LAURA TINGLE: Read scholarly analysis of the rise of the influence of social media 10 or 15 years ago and it almost looks quaint.

Just like crypto prices, the industry’s popularity and influence are prone to wild upswings and falls. A few years ago, the ...