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Zuckerberg now runs not a business but an empire. It’s time to strike back

Anti-monopoly law has not kept abreast of social networks, leaving Facebook free to suck up any rivals

The exit of Instagram’s founders shows Zuckerberg’s rule is absolute

Facebook will always data-mine its users for the benefit of advertisers, whatever the lofty principles of the apps it buys

Exposing Cambridge Analytica: ‘It’s been exhausting, exhilarating, and slightly terrifying’

Observer reporter Carole Cadwalladr on her investigation into the firm at the centre of a data breach that shamed Facebook and exposed foul play in the EU referendum campaign and US presidential election

Facebook says nearly 50m users compromised in huge security breach

Attack gave hackers ability to take over accounts in what is believed to be largest breach in Facebook’s history

Poor Mr Anus, the council candidate given a bum deal by Facebook

A local election candidate in Belgium has been forced to change his name by the social network on the grounds that it is ‘offensive and inappropriate’. The cheek of it!

Why bother teaching drone pilots about ethics? It’s robots that will kill us

The Church of England is offering support to RAF pilots. But we may already be standing on the brink of automated extinction, says Guardian writer Andrew Brown

Instagram founders quit amid suspected clash with Zuckerberg

Tension with Facebook may have prompted Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger to leave

UK newspaper industry demands levy on tech firms

News Media Association says Google and Facebook should fund the journalism from which they profit

Labour vows to rein in academies and scrap free schools

Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner to reveal plan to axe free schools in proposed education reforms

Follow the money: how News Corp wields power to defend its interests

In the third part of our series, we examine how Rupert Murdoch’s primary interest in politicians is not always political but often commercial

EU warns Facebook it faces sanctions over ‘misleading’ T&Cs

Commission gives social media company until end of the year to change its terms of service

Campaigners begin action against male-targeted job ads on Facebook

Workers claim that Facebook provides job ads which allows employers to choose who they want based on their age and sex

Ofcom to push for regulation of social networks

Media regulator’s chief seeks action to prevent online harm

Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed By Tech – review

In an age where our every action can be harvested as data and used against us, Jamie Susskind’s book makes crucial reading

Facebook is shaping public discourse. We need to understand how

Companies like Facebook and Twitter should lift restrictions impeding digital journalism and research on the platforms

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  • UK watchdog plans to break Apple and Google’s ‘effective duopoly’ on mobile app stores
  • Spider-Man’s web of lies: what would actually happen if you were bitten by a radioactive spider?
  • Why is Elon Musk boosting an anti-immigrant film loved by the far right?
  • Number of billionaires globally soars by 13% amid AI shares boom
  • Rocky week for AI as shares slump but no sign of crash – yet
  • Supergirl: doggy distress, frontier justice and a new direction for superhero movies – discuss with spoilers
  • UK ‘minded’ to intervene in Paramount’s $110bn takeover of Warner Bros Discovery
  • Michael Byrne obituary
  • Elon Musk promotes ‘anti-migrant’ Armie Hammer film with free download on X
  • 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

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