Tracking apps might make us feel safe, but blurring the line between care and control can be dangerous

Apps like Life360 and Find My Friends are changing the landscape of what’s considered to be an expression of love – and not necessarily for the better

A 14-step guide to taking a (fleeting) break from social media

Meditate instead of scrolling. Ha, just kidding. Doomscroll on news sites and gnash your teeth at the state of the world

Could a ‘digital diet’ help me fix my bad phone habits?

Smartphone Nation by Dr Kaitlyn Regehr vows to help us take control. But can her methods beat the algorithms?

BBC boss says disinformation ‘trust crisis’ putting social fabric of UK at risk

Tim Davie pitches BBC as unifying force as he announces plans to make more news content for YouTube and TikTok

France derides Russia’s false claim of drug use by Macron, Merz and Starmer

Élysée warns against Kremlin’s disinformation efforts after ‘cocaine’ conspiracy theory spreads online

The Guardian relaunches app and updates homepage design

Podcasts and puzzles get a boost as part of ‘mobile first’ strategy with 1 million daily active users of app

‘The crux of all evil’: what happened to the first city that tried to ban smartphones for under-14s?

It’s a year since teachers in St Albans asked parents not to give younger children smartphones. How successful have they been? What do the kids think about it? And has it made the adults think about their own ‘addiction’?

Greyscale and prune your algorithm: ‘digital nutritionist’ offers advice on cutting down screen time

Kaitlyn Regehr says parents worrying about their children need first to look at their own usage

‘I was scared to even eat the vegetables in my fridge’: the eating disorder that focuses on food purity

As health institutions collapse and Maha influencers spread food fears, experts say orthorexia is on the rise

Children under six should avoid screen time, French medical experts say

TV, tablets and smartphones ‘hinder and alter brain development’, open letter says

‘It gets me cackling like nothing else!’ Your favourite YouTube TV shows

From a very-not-safe-for-work cartoon to a drag queen fever dream and a puppet show that’s like Horrible Histories for grownups – networks wouldn’t dare air these online hits

Meta slowest to remove scam content, says City watchdog

FCA says Instagram and Facebook owner takes up to six weeks to act on warnings about finfluencer posts

Piers Morgan warns rise of YouTube is a ‘wake-up moment’ for traditional media

Presenter is expanding his own business on the platform and likens change to when vinyl music went digital

‘I don’t date at all now’: one woman’s journey into the darkest corners of the manosphere

When Jess Davies was 15, a boy leaked pictures she’d shared with him. At 18, she was a glamour model. A few years later, another man violated her trust. Then she fought back

Jeremy Vine ‘stopping cycling videos’ due to abuse he receives

Broadcaster said trolling ‘got too bad’ and at least two death threats against him were being investigated by police