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This story was originally published by the Texas Tribune and the Texas Newsroom and co-published with ProPublica. Republished under the Texas Tribune's republish feature. Months after fightin ...

Last week Netflix announced a $82.7 billion acquisition of Warner Brothers, elbowing out rival acquisition bids (for now) by Comcast/NBC and Paramount/CBS. But the deal still needs regulatory appro ...

You want to see actual government censorship in action? And have it done by people claiming they're doing it to stop censorship? Check out last week's revelation (originally reported by Reute ...

Now that congressional members on both sides of the aisle have decided it might be worth taking a look at the Defense Department's "murder people in boats" program, we're fi ...

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Elon Musk is now calling for the dissolution of the European Union because it fined him $140 million for violating a law he once said was "exactly aligned" with his vision for (what was ...

All out of original ideas and facing market growth saturation, we've noted repeatedly how streaming companies are increasingly looking like the stodgy old traditional cable TV giants they onc ...

Five Years Ago This week in 2020, Donald Trump got angry about a trend on Twitter and went full force calling for a repeal of Section 230, renewing the effort to slip this into the must-pass milita ...

The fucking maniacs did it. We talked yesterday about how newborn vaccinations for hepatitis B were on the agenda for this latest meeting at ACIP, the CDC's immunization advisory panel. You l ...

So Netflix has announced that it's buying Warner Brothers Discovery (including HBO) for a whopping $82.7 billion. As we've well covered, it's the latest in a long series of pointl ...