Hundreds of UK teenagers to pilot social media bans and restrictions
Trials to form part of three-month consultation on Keir Starmer’s plans to tackle negative effects of smartphone use
The Pentagon says it’s ‘lethalitymaxxing’. Why has ‘incel’ slang crossed into the mainstream?
With the rise of influencer Clavicular and ‘looksmaxxers’, sexist language from niche memes has infiltrated official government accounts and NYT headlines
Instagram to alert parents if teens repeatedly search self-harm terms
Feature for supervised accounts rolls out as Meta platform faces US trials over alleged harms to children
TV tonight: high drama with the largest lion pride in the world
Brave film-makers follow big cats in Botswana. Plus: struggling to sleep? Denise Van Outen has some tips for you. Here’s what to watch this evening
If France could lead the world with Minitel in the 1980s, surely Europe can free itself from Silicon Valley’s shackles now?
Back then, France punched above its weight when it came to tech. The EU needs it to rediscover its taste for the cutting edge, says Paris-based writer Alexander Hurst
Woman at heart of US trial says she was addicted to social media at age six
Lead plaintiff, now 20, says use of social media made her relationships with friends and family anxious and strained
Mumsnet calls for under-16s social media ban with cigarette-style health warnings
Resembling cigarette packet warnings, the ads highlight dangers and urge people to email MPs
Twenty-year-old to testify at US trial about harm from social media addiction
Woman says ‘addictive design’ of Meta and YouTube hooked her before she was 10, causing depression and body dysmorphia
The Guardian view on violent online rhetoric: all politicians have a duty to set a civil tone
Editorial: The ability to conduct polite debate on social media, without amplifying menaces and lies, is a basic qualification for public office
Football ‘has eaten almost every sport’ due to digital dominance, says podcast chief
Football ‘has eaten almost every sport worldwide’ thanks to its dominance of TV and digital markets, according to the head of the leading podcast production company Goalhanger
US news site Politico to launch in Australia, aiming to bring policy focus and ‘new angles’ to Canberra
Australian journalist Ryan Heath, who will lead expansion, says focus will be on journalism that ‘connects the dots globally’
Amused by that AI video of a dancing raccoon? This is how the misery starts …
AI is already coming for our dignity – tricking us with amusing little online scenarios. How long before it comes for everything else, asks Polly Hudson
Molly vs the Machines review – a powerful story of love, loss and the dangers of social media
Before she took her own life at 14, Molly Russell accessed thousands of harmful posts on Instagram and Pinterest. A new documentary recreates the inquest where her father was told the images were safe
BBC producers say they ‘didn’t hear’ N-word slur as ‘working in a truck’, following second Baftas apology
Corporation says it is sorry that words spoken involuntarily during ceremony by John Davidson, who has Tourette syndrome, were not edited out
Letterboxd’s most eager reviewers are changing cinema etiquette: ‘I was excited to pull out my phone’
The popular film-logging app is spurring cinephiles to linger through the credits and jot down their thoughts right away