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Amazon Prime Video streaming content to include ‘limited advertisements’

Customers will be given option to pay more for ad-free service in UK, Germany and US from early next year

‘Drama magnet’: Elon Musk’s biggest headlines of 2023

From cage fighting to rebranding Twitter: it was another controversial year for the multibillionaire

UK anti-abortion charity with links to MPs ran misleading Facebook ads

Right to Life UK, which has links to MPs, has multiplied its spend tenfold

Elon Musk says Disney boss should be ‘fired immediately’ amid X ad boycott

Billionaire launches broadside against Bob Iger after Disney became latest firm to pause advertising

Millions of young people exposed to vape posts online, charity says

Report claims posts promoting smoking alternatives have been viewed more than 3.4bn times across social media

Fertility patients in UK targeted by ‘concerning’ IVF adverts on social media

Some clinics are claiming to ‘guarantee’ success or offer ‘no baby, no fee’ promotions online

Can Elon Musk stop X going to the wall after tirade at advertisers?

Ad revenue used to service debt unlikely to return soon, meaning deal with lenders or cash injection may be needed

Rows and rockets blow up as Elon Musk’s firms endure turbulent weekend

Another space launch failed, but it’s the loss of major advertisers on X that has enraged the tycoon

Facebook and Instagram could charge for ad-free services in EU

Meta’s social networks considering charge of €13 a month on mobile and €17 on desktop, say sources

Has Google’s monopoly on the search engine market finally timed out?

The US justice department is belatedly addressing the company’s stranglehold on digital advertising technologies in the most significant antitrust case for more than two decades

You talkin’ to me? Why Robert De Niro as an 80-year-old Uber driver is advert gold

Some say he’s sold out, but others may feel the Hollywood star’s advertising career is the perfect way to preserve his legacy

From hate speech to AI music: the YouTube chief trying to leap tech’s biggest hurdles

Alison Lomax, London chief of the video platform, says it is committed to embracing artificial intelligence – but ‘responsibly’

‘Studios are like ghost towns’: how Britain’s TV and film industry fell into a hole

Excitement about Netflix and Amazon’s investment has evaporated as strikes, falling ad spend and a glut of completed shows leaves crews out of work

Movie trailers are far too long. Just give me the vibe, don’t walk me through it like a stupid baby

There is no way to talk about this without sounding like the ‘old man yells at cloud’ meme, but here I go

Elon Musk threatens to sue Anti-Defamation League over lost X revenue

World’s richest man claims civil rights group has falsely accused site formerly known as Twitter of being antisemitic

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  • 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
  • ‘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
  • Chinese activist in UK told by X that abusive deepfakes do not breach rules
  • Boogie Nights review – Paul Thomas Anderson’s porn epic is still gaudy, seedy fun
  • Global brands ‘likely’ using mineral that funds rebels accused of atrocities in DRC, investigation finds
  • Can a $159 Bluetooth sleep mask help you snooze better? I tested to find out
  • How Belfast knife attack became the latest far-right ‘trigger event’
  • Crackdown on tech platforms will go ahead despite US intervention, says No 10
  • Peabo Bryson obituary
  • Practice dates: should you swipe right on people you’re not attracted to?
  • Disclosure Day review – close encounters of a deferred kind in Spielberg’s conspiracy spectacular
  • ‘We got banned from YouTube but they showed Saddam Hussein being hanged’: the wild viral visions of Romain Gavras
  • All signs point to Trump pushing AI growth
  • UK regulator orders social media firms to adopt measures to stop viral illegal content
  • Amazon’s main UK arm handed £7.6m tax credit as profits soar to £355m
  • I watched as Meta’s threats stopped Sarah Wynn-Williams from speaking – we must have stronger rights for whistleblowers
  • Bank of England warns of AI scams as deepfakes of Farage-Bailey fight spread

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