New Mexico attorney general asks judge to stop Meta removing child abuse evidence from its sites

Raúl Torrez said that one day after his office filed lawsuit accusing the social media company of enabling groomers, Meta deactivated accounts set up and used by investigators

British teenager behind GTA 6 hack receives indefinite hospital order

Arion Kurtaj, who has severe autism, hacked Rockstar Games using just an Amazon Firestick, mobile phone and hotel TV

Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims

Rights group says Facebook and Instagram routinely engage in ‘six key patterns of undue censorship’ of content supporting Palestine

Diary of a TikTok moderator: ‘We are the people who sweep up the mess’

From ‘dense’ training and tests to going live, answering for ‘idles’ – and some of the types of videos received

TikTok repeatedly urged AEC to join app during voice campaign, FoI reveals

Exclusive: calls to electoral watchdog came despite Australia banning use of platform on government devices

Why is Mark Zuckerberg building a private apocalypse bunker in Hawaii?

Just below billionaires’ charity is an endless well of self-preservation. Their desperate planning for the end betrays everything they spout about equality and progress

Elon Musk’s X back online after global outage

Thousands of users reported being unable to access social media platform for more than an hour on Thursday

Best podcasts of the week: What really happens at celebrity trials (yes, Gwyneth Paltrow’s ski crash included)

In this week’s newsletter: Voice actors and expert analysis bring juicy celebrity legal affairs to life in Courtroom Drama. Plus: five of the best myth-busting podcasts

Australia’s eSafety commissioner sues X over lack of transparency

Commission accuses social media platform of failing to provide information about how it is tackling online child sexual exploitation material

The couch surfing predator: how a group of women were drugged and assaulted – then fought back

Dino Maglio, a former Italian police officer, opened up his home to young women travellers, many of whom suffered at his hands. As scattered as they were, legal action seemed impossible. But as their numbers grew, so too did their determination ...

Police to be able to run face recognition searches on 50m driving licence holders

Exclusive: Privacy campaigners say clause in new criminal justice bill will put all UK drivers on ‘permanent police lineup’

Rite Aid facial recognition misidentified Black, Latino and Asian people as ‘likely’ shoplifters

Surveillance systems incorrectly and without customer consent marked shoppers as ‘persons of interest’, an FTC settlement says

AI image generators trained on pictures of child sexual abuse, study finds

Images might have helped AI systems produce realistic sexual imagery of fake children; the database was taken down in response

TikTok moderators struggling to assess Israel-Gaza content, Guardian told

Button letting moderators flag video content in language they do not understand has been removed, source says

Elon Musk says letting workers unionize creates ‘lords and peasants’. What?

Musk is the world’s best accidental salesman for unions, even as his Tesla workers make 30% less than UAW automakers