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Pew now counts 43 percent of under-30 Americans regularly getting news on TikTok — up from 9 percent in 2020 — with the platform's influencer economy doing the explaining.
Colin Reyes · July 14, 2026
Filings put X's ad revenue around 1.8 billion dollars in 2025, up from 1.7 billion but well under its pre-takeover peak, and the returning spend is concentrated in performance formats rather than brand budgets.
Gabriela Montoya · June 21, 2026
Meta's January 2025 exit from third-party fact-checking removed the field's largest funding source; the surviving organizations have pivoted to elections work, AI tools and reader revenue.
Colin Reyes · May 29, 2026
After the digital-media failures of 2023, the industry's job losses moved inside surviving institutions — buyouts, targeted desk cuts and hiring freezes that the trackers barely catch.
Colin Reyes · May 6, 2026
Nielsen's move to big-data measurement arrived just as televised debates stopped being mass events, so the numbers campaigns manage by measure a different public than the one they claim to.
Colin Reyes · April 14, 2026