You can handle the truth! Why cinema suddenly loves conspiracy theories

From Disclosure Day to Backrooms, a new wave of films promote stories of paranoia, alienation and mistrust. What are they trying to tell us?

On the trail of the dotcom queen: how Julie Meyer left a pattern of unpaid bills, missing funds and broken dreams in her wake

Investigation: The entrepreneur was once the toast of London’s tech scene, a ‘global leader of tomorrow’ who starred on Dragons’ Den and promised untold riches for the startups she championed. But people she worked with in the last decade, from Malta to Switzerland, describe a very different reality

Telegram questioned by Ofcom after arsonist who targeted Starmer-linked properties recruited on app

Exclusive: Telegram urged to clarify how it detects illegal incitement after attacks were coordinated using app

In the Hand of Dante review – Gerard Butler is jaw-dropping in bizarre Renaissance mafia reverie

Julian Schnabel’s combustible mix of lowlife cynicism and high art – along with cameos from Martin Scorsese and Al Pacino – powers this outrageous black comedy revolving around Dante’s Divine Comedy

The Crunch: Climate refugees, visualising Elon Musk’s wealth, and the many ways to analyse the World Cup

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California ‘billionaire tax’ makes ballot despite opposition from tech moguls

Wealth tax criticized by billionaires and Gavin Newsom would levy a one-time 5% tax on residents worth over $1bn

Voicemails for Isabelle review – Netflix romcom picks creepy over cute

Zoey Deutch and Nick Robinson stumble in this mushy, overlong story of a woman leaving voicemails for her dead sister

The Guardian view on OnlyFans: revelations of abusive middlemen merit MPs’ attention

Editorial: Reports of agents taking 50% of women’s earnings undermine the company’s rhetoric of empowerment

Attorney general tells department to stop using X amid UK disinformation concerns

Exclusive: Richard Hermer’s office understood to be first in government to restrict use after recent riots

‘Ordinary people are being erased’: one director’s audacious fightback against AI – featuring Frinton

Marc Isaacs’ film Synthetic Sincerity may look like a documentary, but its fictional premise – a lab that scrapes movies to harvest human emotions – shines a hard light on just how far AI can go

Snag discounts on tech, fashion and more during Amazon’s annual sale

Love or hate Amazon, its 23-26 June Prime Day event is a good time to snag discounts on tech, fashion and more

Aardman exhibition marks animation studio’s half a century in Bristol

Show features characters and sets from likes of Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep and celebrates roots in city

Post your questions for Minions supremo Pierre Coffin

As the cute, yellow, gibberish-spouting creatures return in Minions & Monsters, the animator who voices them and has directed five of the films in the franchise will be taking your questions

Girls Like Girls review – Sapphic teen romance is a precious and predictable yawn-a-thon

Singer Hayley Kiyoko misses the mark in a meandering directorial debut packed with groan-inducing dialogue

We must be alive to the dangers of a UK social media ban – and the way to really help young people

A ban alone could make things worse. A good strategy needs more educational content – and more money, says Rosie Parkyn, executive director of the Guardian Foundation