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Facebook to publish data on Irish abortion referendum ads

Social media company to provide details of spending on ads targeting Irish voters

Facebook labels Russian users as ‘interested in treason’

Firm removes category, which affected 65,000 people, from ad tools, following safety fears

What should I do about all the GDPR pop-ups on websites?

Barbara is constantly being interrupted by pop-ups about the new GDPR. Is there anything she can do?

‘Google and Facebook won’: old guard of advertising under threat in Cannes

Internet giants’ growing control of ad spend brought a sense of change to Cannes Lions festival

Guardian, News UK and Telegraph launch joint advertising business

The Ozone Project will allow advertisers to buy online ad space across news titles from one site

Political advertising online to be reformed, says UK data regulator

Twitter and Facebook told they will be held more responsible for the content they publish

Irish anti-abortion campaigners dodge Google’s ad ban

Campaigners use alternative platforms to promote message on news sites and games

Facebook says its free news feed is helping journalism

Company tells Australian regulator that news makes up just 5% of content shared, and downplays its collection and use of people’s data

The Guardian view on ad tech: a tangled web

Editorial: Martin Lewis is suing Facebook. The question is whether companies can be held responsible for the behaviour of their software

Martin Lewis is right to take on Facebook – it has too much power

As some publishers try to clean up rogue online advertising, the platform has been slow to act. Time for regulation, says freelance journalist Ellie Mae O’Hagan

What happens to the global publicity titans if advertising no longer pays?

The departure of Martin Sorrell from WPP is just the latest sign of the crisis surrounding big ad firms and their ageing leaders

What’s the best email service that doesn’t scan emails for ad-targeting?

Jim doesn’t want his emails scanned for targeted ads, but while there are ways to avoid it, surveillance-based advertising is rife

Facebook to start asking permission for facial recognition in GDPR push

Users will be asked to review information about targeted advertising but some say opting out is deliberately difficult

Facebook ad feature claims to predict user’s future behaviour

Social network criticised over feature that targets users who are likely to switch to an advertiser’s rival’s product

Social media ad spend to overtake TV’s in spite of Facebook woes

Cambridge Analytica scandal unlikely to diminish sector’s dominance, says eMarketer

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  • Pokémon Go data trained AI that could assist military drones in war zones
  • Diane Keaton’s nail clippers for $960: what’s behind the new boom in celebrity estate auctions?
  • Canadian mother sues OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT led her daughter to kill herself
  • The Guardian view on the analogue resurgence: the shock of the old
  • 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 booths 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

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