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Cambridge Analytica-linked academic spurns idea Facebook swayed election

Aleksandr Kogan, who harvested Facebook profiles, dismisses idea as ‘science fiction’ during Senate hearing

‘Tone deaf!’: state department offers poorly-timed tips on traveling with kids

Amid outrage over family separations, state department hosted #FamilyTravelHacks on Facebook Live

Facebook and Twitter: we can do more to protect disabled people

MPs question social media giants following criticism from Katie Price over abuse of son

Could this be the end of Facebook controlling news?

Two reports show signs of a shift in the wake of electoral and data misuse scandals

No, Facebook, I won’t be back. I’ve seen the dangers of habitual sharing

Emerging from the grey brain-state felt like a restoration of the natural order where memories are allowed to fade, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

‘Login with Snapchat’ takes cold war with Facebook to next level

Features for synching with other apps is most aggressive move yet to capitalise on Facebook’s problems

Apple strikes blow to Facebook as it clamps down on data harvesting

Rules appear to target services like Onavo Protect, which claims to protect user data even as it feeds information to Facebook

WhatsApp increasingly popular for sharing news

Reuters Institute report found that use of WhatsApp for news has almost tripled since 2014

Graduation selfies could lead to degree fraud, say experts

Degree anti-fraud agency Hedd warns graduates not to take pictures of certificates

Apple inches closer to $1tn mark as Wall Street tech panic dissipates

Tech’s stock market dominance is no longer a Wall Street fear as Apple is close to becoming first company valued at $1tn

EU tech czar Margrethe Vestager: ‘Social media could deactivate democracy’

Competition regulator eschews a personal Facebook account ‘to give her children free space’

Facebook advertises for ‘fake news’ fact checkers

Firm changes initial ad for ‘news credibility specialists’ to ‘news publisher specialists’

Facebook apologizes for privacy glitch that affected up to 14 million users

Company says it will notify users affected by bug that led to posts being published publicly that were intended to be private

Turnbull would ‘love to see’ Facebook’s Zuckerberg face Australian MPs

Intelligence committee wants to know what data was shared with Chinese firms and why

Cambridge Analytica’s ‘victimised’ ex-chief lambasts liberal media

Alexander Nix tells MPs ‘coordinated and effective attack’ led to firm’s downfall

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  • Enola Holmes 3 review – Netflix mystery franchise is starting to lose steam
  • Frequent AI chatbot users more likely to believe anti-vaccine myths, poll finds
  • Citizen Vigilante review – Armie Hammer returns to obliterate the imaginary woke piñata of Europe-stan
  • Blake Lively files to receive $8m in legal fees from Justin Baldoni and his studio
  • Silicon Valley donations make Colorado Democratic primary one of state’s most expensive
  • The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan brings genuine thrills – and a massive budget – to a well-trodden tale
  • 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

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