Telegram fined nearly $1m by Australian watchdog for delay in reporting about terrorism and child abuse material

Telegram took 160 days to provide information, with the delay obstructing online safety scrutineer from doing its job, commissioner says

‘Revenge porn’ abusers allowed to keep devices with explicit images

Prosecutors in England and Wales are failing to obtain orders requiring the deletion of intimate content shared without consent, analysis reveals

Social media bans for teens: Australia has passed one, should other countries follow suit?

A block for under-16s would soothe many parents’ concerns, but experts are divided over the evidence in support of it, and how it might work in practice

Trump receives widespread backlash to social post calling himself ‘king’

US president made comparison after administration rescinded New York City’s congestion pricing plan

Labor moving too slowly on making big tech pay Australian media for news, Coalition and Greens say

Trump tariff threat fuels concerns the news bargaining incentive announced in December could be delayed

Parents are desperate to protect kids on social media. Why did the US let a safety bill die?

The Kids Online Safety act passed the Senate 91-to-3 but died in the House. Advocates on both sides say they won’t give up

‘Rugby can be pretty complicated’: Cole and Youngs tackle plain speaking in hit podcast

No more biting of lips as former England stalwarts Cole and Youngs are saying what they actually think in their rugby podcast

I was a content moderator for Facebook. I saw the real cost of outsourcing digital labour

Tech firms must invest in and respect the people who filter social media and label the data that AI relies on, says Sonia Kgomo, an organiser with African Tech Workers Rising

UK politics: Second Labour MP suspended by Labour amid offensive messages on WhatsApp group – as it happened

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Fears grow for health of social media influencer arrested on live TV in Sierra Leone

Hawa Hunt’s detention a month ago was politically motivated, say daughter and rights groups, who also raise concerns about her treatment in jail

Parents sue TikTok over child deaths allegedly caused by ‘blackout challenge’

Parents claim four children died as a result of attempting challenge that went viral in 2021

I haven’t banned screen time for my kids – I’ve introduced binge-watching instead

Research shows that not all hours spent glued to a screen are created equal, so I’m actively encouraging nutritional content such as Young Sheldon, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

Your phone buzzes with a news alert. But what if AI wrote it – and it’s not true?

The BBC said Apple Intelligence’s weirdly wrong output sullied its reputation. Apple eventually paused the tool – but its reaction was deeply worrying, says Archie Bland, editor of the Guardian’s First Edition newsletter

Pentagon swaps desk for New York Times reporters for New York Post

Other swaps due to new ‘rotation’ include NPR for Breitbart, NBC for One America News and Politico for HuffPost

Sorry, Dame Judi, BBC Radio’s job is to find listeners, not train playwrights

Drama on 3 may have lost its place but there’s no need for theatrics, it’s just the reality of change in an era of new formats