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Facebook warned Libra cryptocurrency will come under close scrutiny

UK financial regulator highlights concerns over consumer protection and privacy

Why Europe should build its own social platform for news

Public broadcast companies could join up to create a platform that values diversity and privacy, says media researcher Hossein Derakhshan

Bitcoin price falls below $10,000 as boost from Facebook’s Libra fades

Cryptocurrency climbed to nearly $14,000 on news social network was launching rival

It’s not that we’ve failed to rein in Facebook and Google. We’ve not even tried

The tech giants use our data to change our behaviour. Here’s how we can resist it, says academic Shoshana Zuboff

Terrorism crackdown laws could give greater power to block Australians from websites

Tech companies would be legally protected and block sites at the direction of the eSafety commissioner

The Guardian view on Facebook’s Libra: funny money

Editorial: This audacious attempt to launch a privately controlled currency may come to nothing. We should hope it does

Facebook ban on white nationalism too narrow, say auditors

Policy prohibits support for specific terms ‘white nationalism’ or ‘white separatism’

Facebook terror crackdown: will Scott Morrison’s plan for extremist content work?

Leaders’ symbolic statement doesn’t force tech giants to do anything or countries to make new laws like Australia’s

Ruha Benjamin: ‘We definitely can’t wait for Silicon Valley to become more diverse’

The sociologist on how discrimination is embedded in technology – and how we go about building a fairer world

Facebook and Google likely to face new regulators for news and ads

ACCC report argues for an authority to monitor ads to ensure tech giants do not break anti-competition laws

Twitter and Facebook to act over online abuse of Lyra McKee’s friend

Leona O’Neill has become subject of hate campaign after witnessing McKee’s death

Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency faces questions from international regulators

Chair of Financial Stability Board says company’s plans could spark closer scrutiny of cryptocurrencies

Next online battle will play on fear of bots, says Facebook official

New ‘influence operations’ will openly advertise participation in debate instead of hiding it

Has an Australian judge just broken Facebook for publishers?

Landmark ruling set to change the way media companies engage with the social media giant

Media companies scramble after judge rules they are liable for Facebook comments

Australian judge finds media companies have a responsibility to ensure defamatory remarks are not posted on social media

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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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