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David Lynch would struggle to make films in social media landscape, say collaborators

Shorter attention spans would make it hard for director to tell ‘deeply connective’ stories, say colleagues on 80th birthday

UK ministers launch consultation on whether to ban social media for under-16s

Move comes as peers prepare to vote on an amendment to a bill that would enact a ban within a year of the bill passing

‘That magazine looms so large’: food writers on Gourmet’s comeback after 16 years

A group of journalists look to fill the void left by Condé Nast’s Gourmet by reviving it as a worker-owned newsletter

Trump buys $1m in Netflix and Warner Bros bonds days after saying he’ll ‘be involved’ in merger

Warner Bros is also being pursued by Paramount Skydance, helmed by David Ellison, son of president’s ally

Ant and Dec to launch Hanging Out podcast

Pair also launching digital channel Belta Box which will feature new entertainment and curated clips

BBC could soon make programmes for release first on YouTube under deal

Plan follows pressure on broadcaster to put more content on platform, but raises questions about licence fee

Sacked TikTok workers in UK launch legal action over ‘union busting’

Moderators accuse social media firm of unfair dismissal after it fired hundreds in UK just before vote to form union

TikTok to strengthen age-verification technology across EU

Move comes as calls for Australia-style social media ban for under-16s grow around world

‘It’s AI blackface’: social media account hailed as the Aboriginal Steve Irwin is an AI character created in New Zealand

More than 180,000 people follow the Bush Legend’s accounts across Meta platforms, but its Aboriginal host is a work of digital fiction

Spain’s meteorologists subjected to ‘alarming’ rise in hate speech, minister warns

Environment minister says attacks on social media affect perceptions of meteorology and denigrate researchers’ work

Clickbait review – gripping drama about the human cost of moderating the internet

A social media content moderator becomes obsessed with a violent video in this restrained, unsettling workplace thriller starring Lili Reinhart

Wes Streeting asks US expert Jonathan Haidt to address officials on social media ban for under-16s

Exclusive: Health secretary issues invitation in push for UK to consider copying landmark restrictions in Australia

Spanish author lambasts linguistic academy over social media influence

Arturo Pérez-Reverte says ‘an illiterate pundit, YouTuber or influencer’ has more impact than a literary prize winner

Keir Starmer tells MPs he is open to social media ban for young people

PM says he is alarmed at reports about children’s screen time and has shifted position on Australian-style policy

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  • I endured the Melania film so you don’t have to – my only regret is not buying popcorn so one of my senses was entertained
  • Once Upon a Time in Harlem review – remarkable Harlem Renaissance documentary
  • Elon Musk had more extensive ties to Epstein than previously known, emails show
  • Catherine O’Hara managed to make difficult characters utterly delightful
  • Catherine O’Hara, actor known for Home Alone and Schitt’s Creek, dies aged 71
  • Melania review – Trump film is a gilded trash remake of The Zone of Interest
  • Jayasree Kabir obituary
  • Displacement Film Fund review – Cate Blanchett masterminds short film collection that brims with life and intensity
  • ‘Innovating weather science’: Met Office launches new two-week forecast
  • First stills from Sam Mendes’ four-part Beatles film released in Liverpool
  • Groundbreaking director Reginald Hudlin: ‘It’s taken a lot of effort but the reward is always worth it’
  • Eggs, hats and unfettered ambition: what we learned about Melania Trump from her documentary
  • This isn’t the film you are looking for: the Star Wars franchise is hamstrung by a massive identity crisis
  • Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù: ’If the west doesn’t say a film is good, that doesn’t mean it’s no good’
  • One adult for the 9.40am in Sittingbourne: a front row seat for Melania’s ominous UK opening
  • ‘Begging my boyfriend to get one’: Paul Mescal inspires yet another fashion craze with Hamnet earring
  • Reality winners: the rise and rise of the ‘verbatim’ movie
  • What the US TikTok takeover is already revealing about new forms of censorship
  • M3gan 2.0 to Ella McCay: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
  • SpaceX reportedly mulling Tesla merger or tie-up with Elon Musk’s xAI firm
  • How liberals lost the internet
  • Abusers using AI and digital tech to attack and control women, charity warns
  • AI-generated news should carry ‘nutrition’ labels, thinktank says
  • ‘Women hold our power in our orifices’: Kristen Stewart on her audacious feature directing debut
  • ‘Chilling’ hacking network is targeting vulnerable children, charity warns
  • Seized review – captivating documentary goes inside a shocking newspaper raid
  • Apple reports massive spike in iPhone revenue, particularly in China
  • US regulators open inquiry into Waymo self-driving car that struck child in California
  • Undertone review – disappointing podcast horror is mostly skippable
  • UK-based pair behind messaging app accused of giving data to Iranian regime

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