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Isis threatens Twitter employees over blocked accounts

Terror group supporters threaten social network, as well as co-founder Jack Dorsey specifically

‘Pics or it didn’t happen’ – the mantra of the Instagram era

The long read: How sharing our every moment on social media became the new living

Orange Wednesdays: final reel for popular two-for-one cinema ticket offer

The Orange Wednesdays scheme, which saw millions claim an extra free ticket and boost cinema attendances, has reached its final day

Blogger porn ban – Google’s arbitrary prudishness is attacking the integrity of the web

Google’s decision to force blogs hosting adult content into becoming invitation-only services is a deliberate and ill-considered sabotage on free speech and connectivity, writes Zoe Margolis, of sex blog Girl With A One-Track Mind

Google warns sex bloggers: clean up or get out

Blogger, the company’s long-running blogging service, is cracking down on explicit material with just one month’s notice for affected users

The good, the bad and the John Travolta … the Oscars according to Twitter

All the reaction to last night’s ceremony – in tweets

Reese Witherspoon talks up #AskHerMore on the Oscars red carpet

Nominee for Wild promotes campaign to discourage questions about clothes from entertainment reporters at red carpet events

Best picture nominees reworked as emojis on Twitter

Twitter user tells the story of tonight’s big movies via emojis

The great internet swindle: ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?

The internet was meant to liberate and empower its users. But the real effect has been to create vast monopolies and turn us into victims, argues web sceptic Andrew Keen in his controversial new book The Internet is Not the Answer

Twitter CEO: We suck at dealing with trolls and abuse

Leaked memo reveals Dick Costolo is ‘frankly ashamed’ of how Twitter’s failures and promises to take personal responsibility for fixing it

Farewell Lucy Glennon. A brilliant writer, campaigner and ‘total badass’

Lucy had the rare skin condition epidermolysis bullosa, but she never let it quell her anarchic spirit. Please do share your memories in the thread below

YouTube star Zoella joins BBC’s Comic Relief Bake Off

Video blogger to appear alongside Alexa Chung, Chris Moyles, David Mitchell and Abbey Clancy in charity contest

What happened when I confronted my cruellest troll

I’m often deluged with hate online, but after one troll stole my dead dad’s identity to abuse me, I decided to ask him why

PR blog ghostwriting: it’s time to give up this tired practice

PRs should only encourage a client to blog if they have something worth saying and can write it well

Marya E Gates: ‘Male directors tend to miss how intimate women are with each other’

In our interview series with women who write on the web and shape its discussions, we speak to film critic Marya E Gates, who recently began a project called A Year with Women

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  • Cracking sleaze, Gromit: Wallace’s long-suffering canine companion to tell all in memoir
  • Trump’s DoJ intervenes to back Elon Musk in datacenter pollution lawsuit
  • How the fight over US datacenters is scrambling this state’s politics: ‘We don’t want it’
  • SpaceX overtakes Amazon as world’s fifth most valuable company
  • France to ditch Palantir’s AI data tools in favour of domestic provider
  • UK defence spending plan ‘well short of what’s required’ and harder choices needed, says John Healey – as it happened
  • Cate Blanchett promises ‘creative rumpus’ in new role: Oxford professor
  • Abdullah Ibrahim obituary
  • Toy Story 5 review – Pixar franchise needs new batteries
  • UK social media ban could cut lifeline for disabled children, campaigners warn
  • Tom Holland confirms that he and Zendaya are married
  • Sean Penn to direct January 6 drama with Bradley Cooper set to star
  • ‘Don DeLillo gave me his blessing’: film director Ben Rivers on how fan mail from the Underworld author led to his latest work
  • Elon Musk’s unprecendented accumulation of wealth
  • ‘What an adventure Broadway will be!’ Paddington musical packs suitcase for New York
  • Russell Crowe says Gladiator II failed because ‘it didn’t have a moral core’
  • Thirst review – member-dismembering Icelandic gore fest rips it up in trashy 80s style
  • ‘David Bowie was a crazy workaholic’: Labyrinth at 40 – an oral history
  • The Death of Robin Hood review – Hugh Jackman darkens a heroic tale in grim drama
  • ‘He experienced a full life of trauma’: documentary explores troubled tale of Gregg Allman
  • ‘Streaming gave me a space to be myself’: Twitch creators on what it’s like to grow up on the platform
  • Girlfriends review – love and growing pains in queer coming-of-age tale that goes from Hong Kong to Taiwan
  • Alienated by Disclosure Day? You are not alone
  • Nightwatchers review – desperate struggle of migrant crisis under surface of picture-postcard ski resort
  • Florida lawsuit accuses TikTok of violating state’s child social media ban
  • Impact of social media ban for under-16s in UK hinges on how firm it is
  • The Guardian view on regulating big tech: the UK’s new, tougher approach to child safety is overdue
  • Technology secretary says she wants regulator to design plans for online age verification by October – as it happened
  • ‘The genie is out of the bottle’: parents react to UK under-16s social media ban
  • Forget makeup and tweakments: this is how we should be ageing gracefully

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