Zuckerberg tells parents of social media victims at Senate hearing: ‘I’m sorry for everything you’ve been through’
CEOs of Meta, X, TikTok, Snap and Discord questioned before Congress over alleged harms to young users on their platforms
Meta is the world’s ‘single largest marketplace for paedophiles’, says New Mexico attorney general
Raúl Torrez is taking the company to court and expects further details to emerge about its knowledge of child sexual exploitation on its platforms
Anyone could be a victim of ‘deepfakes’. But there’s a reason Taylor Swift is a target
Deepfake porn is a potent new weapon for harassment – and it’s not a coincidence Swift has become its most prominent victim
Elmo’s big question: how an adorable puppet asked how everyone was doing – and opened the gates of hell
The Sesame Street monster was just being friendly on X. Now, he’s drowning in election anxiety, relationship troubles and existential dread
Thomas Jaspers: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)
The Australian comedian shares what makes him laugh, including an AI vision of Melbourne’s inner north, Mel Buttle’s TikTok and a seagull named Steven
George Osborne joins Coinbase as crypto firm faces US court fight
Appointment of former UK chancellor comes as regulator sues operator over claims it flouted rules
I pick up my phone 111 times a day – it doesn’t matter how much time we spend on it
The measure of whether you are living a good life is up to you – and not determined by your daily screen time total, writes Guardian US’s tech editor
Inside the Taylor Swift deepfake scandal: ‘It’s men telling a powerful woman to get back in her box’
AI-generated porn, fuelled by misogyny, is flooding the internet, with Taylor Swift the latest high-profile casualty. Victims say social media platforms are failing to take it down – will they now start taking it seriously?
Universal Music Group threatens to pull song catalog from TikTok in furious open letter
UMG said it will remove all songs from TikTok after it accused the social media platform of trying to ‘bully’ them into ‘a bad deal’ over music rights fees
Taylor Swift AI images prompt US bill to tackle nonconsensual, sexual deepfakes
Bipartisan measure introduced in US Senate will allow victims in ‘digital forgeries’ to seek civil penalty against perpetrators
Advertising slump sinks Google investor confidence despite overall high revenue
Tech giant beat revenue predictions for last quarter of 2023 but failed to deliver on predicted advertising revenue
Elon Musk’s $56bn Tesla pay package is too much, judge rules
Judge ruled his pay – six times larger than the combined pay of the 200 highest-paid executives in 2021 – was set inappropriately
Microsoft’s Activision acquisition and bets on AI yield high quarterly revenue
Tech giant now second business in history to reach a stock market valuation of $3tn, overtaking Apple as the world’s most valuable
TikTok: Murder Gone Viral review – this documentary’s social media obsession is utterly bizarre
Two of these killers had a perverse mother-daughter dynamic that would make Freud faint. So why is this show so determined to unconvincingly pin the blame on TikTok?
Apple Vision Pro reviews roundup: stunning potential with big trade-offs
Early reviews of cutting-edge headset suggest it is packed with sci-fi tech and interesting ideas but is far from perfect