Although it might seem like a bland office, that of Orange County clerk-recorder affects everyone. It handles many functions, including birth and death certificates, marriage licenses and real estate ...

For years, social media and video apps weren’t quite able to overtake good old television as Americans’ most-used source for news. That’s finally changed, according to Oxford’s Reuters Institute for ...

The plaintiff in a high-profile trial against Meta and YouTube who goes by Kaley, or K.G.M., said she became addicted to social media as a child, leading to her depression and body dysmorphia. The ...

A new campaign dubbed 'GhostPoster' is hiding JavaScript code in the image logo of malicious Firefox extensions with more than 50,000 downloads, to monitor browser activity and plant a backdoor. The ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. With more and more people returning to the office, leaving the ...

As Americans increasingly get their news from online shows and streamers, the influence of this media ecosystem becomes more prominent — and Media Matters has found that the most popular of this ...

Americans’ trust in the media to report the news fairly and accurately has sunk to its lowest point in more than five decades. Just 31 percent of respondents in Gallup’s latest survey on the topic ...

Google has begun requiring users of its search engine to turn on JavaScript, a programming language that makes web pages interactive. The company said it protects ...

More than three-quarters of U.S. adults say that news organizations are biased when presenting news on social and political issues, according to a new survey. The survey from the Pew Research Center ...

Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer deleted his X account after growing tired of questions from election deniers, who have sowed doubt in the county’s elections for more than four years. “For 4 ...