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Social media stars under fire for flouting rules on advertising

Advertising Standards Authority launches roll-call of offenders who fail to to make clear paid-for endorsement

UK regulator warns Google about accepting scam adverts

FCA tells MPs it will take action against social media and search engines that host online frauds

France fines Google for abusing online advertising dominance

Tech giant will pay £189m after settlement found it unfairly favoured its own tools for buying and selling ads

UK and EU investigate Facebook over unfair use of data in digital advertising

Joint inquiry to consider if Facebook stifles competition on Marketplace and Dating platforms

Sony Movie Channel has been renamed Great! But how? And why?!

Sony’s Freeview TV staple has a new name, with an exclamation mark to show how exciting it is! What’s the thinking behind the rebrand? And who’s watching?

‘Time to buy’ bitcoin adverts banned in UK for being irresponsible

Campaign failed to say investment was complex, volatile and could expose investors to losses, says ASA

Marie Claire owner reports record profits on back of Covid reading boom

Future’s share price soars as it says full-year results will be ‘materially ahead’ of expectations

Online safety bill ‘will fail to protect millions from cloned websites and ad scams’

Finance experts fear loophole because of UK government’s focus on user-generated content

Are they having a laugh? How The Father’s posters get the film so wrong

Anthony Hopkins’ harrowing dementia drama is the sensation of this awards season. So why is it endlessly being advertised as another movie altogether?

It’s just pants: ads for skimpy men’s underwear too racy for media giants

Retailer Moot fears for future of its business as TV and web companies remove its promotions

Toast of the town: why George Clooney’s Warburtons ad is the best thing since sliced bread

The suave superstar follows Stallone, De Niro and Kermit the Frog in hawking Warburton. Let’s put the results under the grill

UK ministers urged to make tech giants responsible for scams

Coalition of organisations including City of London police and Which? demand social media sites vet adverts

Martin Lewis: ‘There’s an epidemic of scams, but fraudsters are getting off scot-free’

The consumer champion explains why it’s crucial the new online safety bill includes fraud and con adverts

Facebook allows advertisers to target children interested in smoking, alcohol and weight loss

Social media giant gave organisation behind a page for Australian 13- to 17-year-olds option to run alcohol, smoking and gambling ads for as little as $3

Apple iOS 14.5 update includes ‘app tracking transparency’ feature

Setting means iPhone users can stop advertisers following their digital lives – to the ire of Facebook

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  • Canadian mother sues OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT led her daughter to kill herself
  • Helen Mirren speaks out about being called ‘evil Zionist’ on the street in London
  • Musk’s xAI fired engineer for raising concerns about Grok chatbot, lawsuit claims
  • SpaceX heads for record $1.78tn float amid fears it is overvalued
  • 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

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