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Inside the Social Network: Facebook’s Difficult Year review – thumbs down!

As if bewitched by their level of access, the BBC ditched critical distance, rolled over and let out one giant cheer for the global techno-oligarchy. Unfriend!

‘Breathtaking arrogance’: senators grill Facebook in combative hearing over Libra currency

Banking committee questions Facebook on its Libra project, while the House will later take aim at Google, Apple and Amazon

How to survive the fake news about cancer

The internet is awash with ads for costly but bogus treatments – and claims that scientists are suppressing a cure for the disease

Money’s no object for Facebook, so hit it where it hurts

When a £4bn fine can be shrugged off with a share price rise, normal rules no longer apply

Facebook to be fined $5bn for Cambridge Analytica privacy violations – reports

The $5bn fine would be the largest ever levied by the Federal Trade Commission against a technology company

France hits back at US over tax on digital giants

US has said it will investigate planned levy on firms such as Amazon and Facebook

Facebook is ripe for exploitation – again – in 2020

Facebook claims to have cleaned up its act. But the platform remains vulnerable to the same sorts of divisive propaganda

Meet the millennials pretending to be baby boomers on Facebook

Online, you can be anyone. So why are millennials choosing to roleplay as baby boomers?

Lawyers are now free to cherrypick defamatory Facebook comments, looking for nuggets of gold

Social media comments are an online free-for-all. After the Dylan Voller case, media organisations have the impossible task of stemming the tide

Facebook ads funded by ‘dark money’ are the right’s weapon for 2020

The right and conservative media are using the untraceable ads to push a rightwing agenda and get Donald Trump re-elected

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp hit by media messaging outage

Facebook and Instagram report being ‘back at 100%’ after all three platforms were malfunctioning throughout the day

Google and Facebook under scrutiny over UK ad market dominance

Competition watchdog to investigate potential abuse of power and control of user data

‘Way ahead of the field’: inside Trump’s unprecedented social media campaign

Donald Trump spent more than $11.1m on Facebook and Google ads alone in the first six months of 2019

Libra: US Congress asks Facebook to pause development

Legislators say they need time to investigate cryptocurrency and its potential impact

Cash request from a Facebook ‘friend’ left me £300 out of pocket

I was defrauded by a hacker posing as someone I knew who said he needed help

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  • Big tech spent millions on a single US congressional race. It won’t be the last time
  • The Guardian view on Islamophobia: political rhetoric is fuelling hate crime
  • Supergirl review – sprightly and sparkling superhero yarn without the usual baffling DC backstory
  • AI helps read papyrus scroll burnt to crisp during Vesuvius eruption
  • Dyson HushJet Mini Cool fan review: I’ve never tested a handheld fan this powerful – or this loud
  • The 23 best anti-Prime Day deals for Amazon skeptics in the US – from Best Buy, REI and more
  • The 40 best Prime Day deals in the US on things our editors actually tested and love
  • Apple Watches are cheaper than ever right now. Here are the ones we’d buy
  • I was wary of driverless cars and their tech overlords – but they could give me a different future
  • The Warriors come out to Broadway with Lin-Manuel Miranda musical
  • The weirdest things a leak revealed about Peter Thiel’s secret club
  • Meta pauses employee tracker for AI training amid privacy concerns
  • Karl Stefanovic reportedly leaving Nine after podcast with UK far-right activist Tommy Robinson
  • The Last Viking review – Mads Mikkelsen thinks he’s John Lennon in Von Trier-ish prankster comedy
  • If an AI chatbot misleads you, who is to blame?
  • ‘You can’t make billions without hurting people’: Cory Doctorow on Elon Musk, the AI bubble and bosses’ cruel fantasies
  • Dear You review – enjoyable Chinese romdram crosses generations as it tracks down a missing husband
  • Hold the Fort review – gory goings-on at the neighbours association get-together
  • Deja viewing: the return of the cheapo compilation film
  • ‘Who is going to pay us when we’re replaced by robots?’ The Indian factory workers told to film themselves for AI
  • Chinese supercomputer leapfrogs best US machines to be ranked world’s fastest
  • Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham have met away from No 10 to discuss transition – as it happened
  • Quantum of Solace: a heartbroken James Bond is fuelled by rage in Daniel Craig’s most underrated 007 film
  • US AI stock sell-off shakes markets from Wall Street to Asia
  • You’re only supposed to blow the bloody hooves off: AI Michael Caine narrates Odyssey audiobook
  • Will California’s billionaire tax proposal make it to ballots?
  • AI in the classroom prompts tide of concern from US parents and experts
  • How to Live on Earth review – Benedict Cumberbatch exudes positivity in response to the climate crisis
  • Majority of datacenters are vulnerable to climate threats like floods and fires, study finds
  • Australia ‘sleepwalking’ into AI crisis and ‘tech bro free-for-all’, says Greens senator

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