RiverheadLOCAL is setting clear social media comment rules in 2026. Debate is welcome; personal attacks and false or misleading information are not.

Bournemouth University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. “Rage bait” has been named the word of the year by the Oxford University Press. It means social media content that is ...

Look, “Weird Al” Yankovic doesn’t have to ask anyone’s permission to make goofy, accordion-driven parody songs. It’s all fair use, the Supreme Court confirmed in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., ...

“War,” the Prussian military thinker Carl von Clausewitz wrote, “is a mere continuation of policy by other means.” If there ...

"Rage bait" has been named the word of the year by the Oxford University Press. It means social media content that is designed to create a strong and negative reaction. Posting content intended to ...

As Oxford University Press names ‘rage bait’ its word of the year, Jonathan Este examines the strange addiction to links that anger us Posting content intended to antagonise people may not seem like a ...

These days, every dollar counts for publishers. And the comments section offers one more way for publishers to monetize their engagement. Kelly Andresen, the former president of national sales at USA ...

Posting content intended to antagonise people may not seem like a wise strategy for a social media influencer. But people who post content on social media can make more money if their channel has a ...

How: ESPN “Select” (US), Amazon Prime Video (UK) DAZN2 and DAZN Germany (Germany). Everywhere else here. Here are the rules: Exercise common sense. We allow profanity, adult humor, and other forms of ...

How: ESPN “Select” (US), BBC iPlayer (UK), Sat. 1 & Sky Sport Bundesliga 1 (Germany). Everywhere else here. Here are the rules: Exercise common sense. We allow profanity, adult humor, and other forms ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumers’ mood improved slightly this month, with worries about inflation easing a bit, but remains gloomy. The University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index, released ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Global online forum Reddit on Friday filed a court challenge to Australia’s world-first law that bans Australian children younger than 16 from holding accounts on the world ...