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Sheryl Sandberg saga shows it’s time to lean out of corporate feminism

Capitalism has coopted feminism and become a way for privileged women to advance their careers. We say: enough

California judge condemns startup for giving secret Facebook papers to UK

Parliament seized confidential documents under scrutiny in Six4Three’s lawsuit against social network

Millennial news site Mic sacks most of its staff in New York

Firm sells remaining assets to rival Bustle and partially blames Facebook for collapse

Christopher Wylie: ‘The fashion industry was crucial to the election of Donald Trump’

The Cambridge Analytica whistleblower reveals how certain brands were weaponised during the US election campaign

Facebook to require proof that political ads come from UK

Social network to act against ‘dark adverts’ with compulsory disclaimers saying who paid

Why is populism booming? Today’s tech is partly to blame

Social media platforms are the perfect places to deny nuance in favour of extreme opinions – and we are hooked on them, says author Jamie Bartlett

Take Zuckerberg’s name off our city’s hospital, says San Francisco politician

City leader cites ‘continued scandals’, as others begin to question the reputational cost of taking philanthropic funds from Facebook

The Guardian view on Zuckerberg’s Facebook: regulate it as a media firm

Editorial: As long as social media – unregulated – is allowed to spread prejudice and falsehood, and build a dominant position in advertising, it is a threat to democracy

Ex-Facebook manager: black staffers face discrimination and exclusion

Mark S Luckie alleges racism against African American employees and says site is biased against black users

Facebook was warned of apparent Russian data trawl in 2014, MPs told

Social media firm claims no breach was found after it carried out investigation

Fake news inquiry: Facebook questioned by MPs from around the world – as it happened

Rolling updates as representatives from nine parliaments question the social media company, who refused to send CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook fake news inquiry: the countries demanding answers

Legislators from Argentina to Ireland feel the firm has failed to get a grip on the issue, and they are ready to step in

Local newspapers need to be based on public service, not profit

Advertising revenue alone is no longer enough to sustain regional newsrooms

Rule by robots is easy to imagine – we’re already victims of superintelligent firms

The ruthless behaviour of corporations gives us some idea of what we need to avoid in a future run by machines

Concern grows at Tory link to US lobby firm in Facebook smear scandal

Conservative party working with UK Policy Group, London arm of company accused of targeting George Soros

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  • Not a Pretty Picture review – Martha Coolidge’s recreation of her rape remains shockingly powerful
  • Oura Ring 5 review: a stunning generational leap for smart rings
  • Executioner review – sleazy MP hams it up with sex worker in darkly comic blackmail thriller
  • Ireland is big tech’s lapdog – and that compromises its EU presidency
  • Crypto firms operating in UK to be subject to sweeping new rules
  • US supreme court rules geofence warrants require constitutional privacy protections
  • Shares in chipmakers underpinning AI boom rocket in first half of 2026
  • Comcast to spin off NBCUniversal and Sky into separate media business
  • Ministers likely to support law change to allow delivery robots on England’s paths
  • ‘His ability is hard to deny’: is Tom Hardy a secretly good rapper?
  • ‘A very good gadget’: taking delivery from the robots of Milton Keynes
  • Once, cyber-attacks required great skill. AI is changing that
  • Done Quixote? Film archivists on quest to finish Orson Welles passion project
  • Black Box: Flight 298 review – there’s a beastie in the hold in airborne conspiracy horror
  • Keir Starmer’s attempts to placate big tech were a disaster. Andy Burnham must take a stand
  • ‘Genuinely changed my life’: why Groundhog Day is my feelgood movie
  • The Last Assassins review – shades of Blade Runner in dystopian thriller shrouded in silty-green murk
  • Why did the BBC hire Ashley Cain? Because it has a warped idea of what young men want
  • Fragments of Ice review – fascinating chronicle of Soviet collapse through the lens of a Ukrainian ice skater
  • Ring Video Doorbell Pro review: night and day better with new 4K camera
  • Australian with retirement savings? You probably own SpaceX
  • ‘Crypto v community’: 4,000 local US lenders join forces to fight ‘stablecoins’ law
  • When it comes to taxing the super rich, there’s no need to reinvent the wheel
  • ‘It’s dangerous and it’s going to erode trust’: redesign of US government websites stokes surveillance fears
  • ‘Tech firms are losing the public’: social media age bans near tipping point
  • I’m a psychiatrist who was terrified of horror films – until I learned about ‘cinematic neurosis’
  • Two prime ministerial resignations, 10 years apart: ‘Brexit represents a kind of faultline in British history’
  • Lost your crypto access code? Be wary, there‘s a scam for that too
  • ‘Enforcement mode’: Australia must take fight to tech giants to make social media ban stick, experts warn
  • Still blazing after all these years: Mel Brooks at 100

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