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Overseas social media influencers can likely evade Australia’s new advertising laws, drug regulator says

TGA concedes limits to its enforcement of restrictions covering promotion of therapeutic goods such as weight-loss products

Watchdog bans London tube Floki Inu cryptocurrency ad campaign

Advertisements named after Elon Musk’s dog allegedly took advantage of consumers’ naivety

Super Bowl: the ads, the music and everything but the football – as it happened

While the game raged on, there were several major ads and movie trailers and a much-anticipated half-time show from some hip-hop and R&B legends

Stanley Tucci’s puntastic San Pellegrino deal heralds a fizzy future for celebrity endorsements

Kevin Bacon may not care much about mobile coverage and George Clooney might not always drink coffee from plastic pods. But you could imagine Stanley Tucci drinking posh sparkling water

Why the Facebook owner’s shares are in freefall

Analysis: shares in Meta fell by 25% after latest results revealed first-ever decline in daily users

Andrew Forrest launches criminal action against Facebook over scam ads that used his image

Mining billionaire says world-first prosecution aims to prevent Australians being scammed through clickbait advertising on social media

How a Muslim dating app made UK man’s search for a wife go viral

Mixed responses on social media to revelation Muzmatch was behind poster campaign in Muhammed Malik’s quest for love

TikTok warned Australian political parties against advertising on its platform

Social media platform wrote to parties after reports of marketing agency offering users $300 to make videos criticising Scott Morrison

Treasury plans crackdown on ‘misleading’ cryptocurrency ads

Move to change law would see assets subject to the same FCA rules as shares and insurance

Love Islanders to be named and shamed for not declaring paid-for posts

Francesca Allen, Jess and Eve Gale and model Jodie Marsh among 122 Instagram influencers publicly sanctioned by watchdog

Cryptocurrency ads reach record levels on London transport

Mayor urged to implement promised ban on gambling adverts on TfL – and to extend it to crypto companies

Spotify Wrapped is free advertising that says nothing about the joy of music

The annual roundup of your listening data has become a Black Friday-esque landmark in corporate Christmas, but it’s not snobbery to say this is a shallow experience

Watchdog investigates tube adverts for Floki Inu cryptocurrency

Advertising Standards Authority receives complaints about ads for meme coin named after Elon Musk’s dog

Facebook and Instagram gathering browsing data from under-18s, study says

Parent company Meta denies data being used to target young users with ads based on their browsing activity

Ban ads for cryptocurrencies at stations and on buses, TfL urged

Posters for unregulated meme coin in UK capital prompt calls for action

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  • Playing with payphones: how the ubiquitous orange boxes have been gamified by fans
  • Cassette tapes were the voice notes of my youth, bringing tales from the diaspora to our living room
  • ‘I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way’: Kathleen Turner’s best films – ranked!
  • AI wealth boom sending San Francisco home prices surging: ‘It’s ridiculous’
  • ‘This is honest art. Like Dostoevsky’: Tim Allen and Tom Hanks on Toy Story 5, tech peril and the joy of rusty nails
  • AI absolutism is breaking our brains. The apocalyptic future we’re being sold isn’t inevitable
  • ‘Now they can’t afford me’: Steven Spielberg was turned down to direct Bond – twice
  • Who you gonna maul? Why Paul Feig’s derided all-female Ghostbusters dazzles a decade later
  • Stop! That! Train! review – RuPaul-led zany drag comedy is a riot
  • The best robot vacuums in the UK to keep your home clean and dust free, tested
  • Strictly Ballroom review – Baz Luhrmann’s dizzying, dance-tastic swirl of fun is a classic ugly-duckling tale
  • Met police chief calls for law to make stolen phones ‘unusable bricks’
  • ‘They kissed, and the audience roared’: the new musical about gay activists and striking miners
  • French star Patrick Bruel charged with rape and sexual assault
  • Labor to set terms for datacentre and AI growth as it vows not to repeat mistakes of resources boom
  • Dead Poets Society director Peter Weir receives lifetime achievement award at Sydney film festival
  • Stephen Ogilvie’s family appeal for calm on second night of disorder – as it happened
  • Elon Musk’s X not facing action from UK government over posts inciting violence in Belfast
  • Glenn Close and Ridley Scott among names set to receive honorary Oscars
  • The Guardian view on far-right violence: digital radicalisation is threatening democracy
  • Sales of Meta whistleblower’s memoir soar after Hay festival ‘silencing’
  • How to Talk Australians: The Movie review – viral web series lampooning Aussie culture gets big-screen adaptation
  • First trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s Facebook sequel The Social Reckoning
  • Actor Tyler Mane reveals he is having treatment for rare male breast cancer
  • Under the Shadow review – Leila Farzad is fantastic in this nerve-shredding tale of 80s Tehran
  • From An Evening With Gary Lineker to Dear England: what to watch to warm up for the World Cup
  • Peter Asher on being music’s incredible ‘Everywhere Man’: ‘The secret is simple’
  • ‘It’s not about heroes and villains’: the triumphant return of long-lost indie I Shot Andy Warhol
  • Should you send that midnight text? 11 essential rules for phone etiquette
  • The best films of 2026 so far

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