Starmer urged to prioritise child sexual exploitation victims
Charities and experts call for national conversation to move away from sensationalism after Musk criticism
Facebook unchecked: inside the 17 January Guardian Weekly
Zuckerberg’s pivot to Trump. Plus: Gisèle Pelicot’s daughter speaks
Meta to fire thousands of staff as Zuckerberg warns of ‘intense year’
Company reveals plans to cut about 5% of its global workforce days after saying it would get rid of factcheckers
MP launches legal action against Andrew Tate over social media posts
Lawyer for Northern Ireland MP Sorcha Eastwood said posts were made the day after Commons debate on violence against women and girls
Big tech is picking apart European democracy, but there is a solution: switch off its algorithms
The latest actions of Musk and Zuckerberg are a sign of things to come, but the EU already has the power to give people back control, says Johnny Ryan, director of Enforce, a unit of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties
Google investigated by UK watchdog over search dominance
CMA to look at impact on consumers, businesses, advertisers and publishers, as well as collection of data
‘Just the start’: X’s new AI software driving online racist abuse, experts warn
Amid reports of creation of fake racist images, Signify warns problem will get ‘so much worse’ over the next year
Fears for UK boomer radicalisation on Facebook after Meta drops factcheckers
For middle-aged users, it will be ‘even harder to discern the truth’ among extremist content, expert says
The internet wants me to spend £500 on a jumper. How can I say no?
I already have too much stuff – and every time I go online I’m being pushed to buy more. Time to channel my inner deinfluencer
UK online safety laws ‘unsatisfactory’ and ‘uneven’, says science minister
Peter Kyle frustrated with act inherited from Tories and says parliament should legislate faster to protect public
Elon Musk and the new world order: the hijacking of the global conversation
How can we publicly debate policy in the face of the rising – and polarising – influence of the X owner and others whose only aim is to serve themselves
UK can be ‘AI sweet spot’: Starmer’s tech minister on regulation, Musk, and free speech
Technology secretary Peter Kyle has the task of making Britain a leading player in the AI revolution, but says economic growth will not come at the cost of online safety
US supreme court seems likely to uphold TikTok ban-or-sale law in hearing
Justices weighed importance of security with freedom of speech in oral arguments that went over nearly an hour
Meta never cared about factchecking. What it wants is friction-free oligarchy
The company’s plan to end its factchecking program is about appeasing Trump. That signals the making of a mafia state
Revisions of ‘hateful conduct’: what users can now say on Meta platforms
Meta has rewritten policies to allow different things to pass on Facebook, Instagram and Threads