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How the online business model encourages prejudice

How the online ad model is based on discrimination

Facebook deletes Iran-linked pages over effort to sow discord among US voters

Dozens of accounts posting politically charged content reached more than a million users, company says

The election hackers are back – and they’re starting with the US midterms

Democracies around the world now face an even bigger threat than in 2016. But there are ways to fight back, say PW Singer and Emerson Brooking

UK fines Facebook £500,000 for failing to protect user data

Decision by information commissioner comes after Cambridge Analytica scandal

Tim Cook calls for US federal privacy law to tackle ‘weaponized’ personal data

Apple CEO warns of ‘data industrial complex’ as Facebook and Google chiefs also voice support for regulation

European elections ‘face growing threat of manipulation’

Commission says Facebook scandal is ‘wake-up call’ as it calls for monitoring network

‘Tech tax’ necessary to avoid dystopia, says leading economist

Jeffrey Sachs warns AI could lead to wealth being concentrated in the hands of a few thousand people

Facebook and Google are run by today’s robber barons. Break them up

Regulation is needed to make the tech industry act in line with the public good and not just its CEOs’ stock options

The Guardian view on taming technology: it’s out of control

Editorial: Technology’s power to manipulate minds and emotions may be too much for society

Nick Clegg urged to stand up for liberalism and democracy at Facebook

Former Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown says ex-colleague should changes firm’s culture

After gloom over Nasdaq losses, tech investors hope for a ray of sunshine

Results from Microsoft Google, Amazon and more will show whether this month’s jitters are still affecting the web giants

Think the giants of Silicon Valley have your best interests at heart? Think again

New technology should be benign. All too rarely is that the case

If you’re on the side of democracy, Nick Clegg, why are you going to work for Facebook?

When you take the Zuckerberg shilling, you’re leaving your principles behind you

£250,000 ad campaign urges voters to oppose May’s Brexit plan

Anonymously run campaign on Facebook urges voters to ‘tell your MP to bin Chequers’

I’m joining Facebook to build bridges between politics and tech

It’s time we harnessed big tech to the cause of progress and optimism. Facebook can lead the way, says Nick Clegg, former UK deputy prime minister

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  • Doubt that Elon Musk ‘earned’ his trillion? Rightwing media says you’re in an ‘impotent envy cult’
  • The original Moana: did a 1926 documentary give birth to a 21st century Disney blockbuster?
  • The Invite review – Seth Rogen adds zest and bite to fruity dinner party comedy
  • 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
  • ‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI
  • 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’

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