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Publish all Vote Leave’s data, campaign chief challenges Facebook

Dominic Cummings says move would prove campaign did not use data gathered improperly by Cambridge Analytica

Facebook tweak bars undocumented immigrants from buying political ads

Policy change designed to help verify identity has sparked a backlash by inadvertently excluding undocumented Americans

Cambridge Analytica whistleblower says Bannon wanted to suppress voters

Christopher Wylie testified before the Senate judiciary committee that Bannon wanted ‘weapons to fight a culture war’

Facebook lets advertisers target users based on sensitive interests

Social network categorises users based on potentially sensitive interests such as Islam or homosexuality

Mark Zuckerberg has ‘no plans’ to go to UK to give evidence to MPs

MPs inquiring into Cambridge Analytica breach ask Facebook CEO to appear via video link

Facebook closed 583m fake accounts in first three months of 2018

Firm’s first quarterly moderation report shows scale of spam, hate speech and violence

Facebook suspends 200 apps as part of investigation into data misuse

After Cambridge Analytica fallout, the company is investigating apps that had access to large amounts of data before 2014

Keeping a free and fair press is one of the defining political issues of our age

Both those who are wronged, and those seeking to expose abuses of power, pay a price

‘We’re waiting for answers’: Facebook, Brexit and 40 questions

MPs’ frustrations grow as new evidence in America reopens the issue of Kremlin influence

Revealed: the overseas anti-abortion activists using Facebook to target Irish voters

The social media giant has disclosed that many sites targeting voters are managed outside Ireland

Klout is dead – how will people continuously rank themselves online now?

The app that analysed and scored users’ online followings has closed after 10 years – to make way for a tool that may cheapen social media even further

Facebook hit with class action lawsuit over collection of texts and call logs

Plaintiffs claim social network’s ‘scraping’ of information including call recipients and duration violates privacy and competition law

#BlueLivesMatter and Beyoncé: Russian Facebook ads hit hot-button US issues

Congress releases 3,500 Russian-made advertisements focused on race, gun control, LGBT rights and immigration

Facebook to block foreign spending on Irish abortion vote ads

Company accused of being late with move to help curb outside attempts to sway referendum

Social media copies gambling methods ‘to create psychological cravings’

Methods activate ‘same brain mechanisms as cocaine’ and leads to users experiencing ‘phantom’ notification buzzing, experts warn

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  • AI summaries of Tripadvisor hotel reviews downplay serious complaints, investigation finds
  • New Zealand finally gets a Google Maps tool that correctly pronounces Māori placenames
  • Rapid spread of AI may worsen global inequality, UN warns
  • People in the US: share your views on Trump’s earnings in his second term
  • Best TV shows and movies streaming in Australia this month
  • No console-flation: how the thirst for AI chips is sending games console prices soaring
  • The Guilty review – Russell Tovey is commanding in cop thriller that fills you with dread
  • Alarm bells over conflict of interest as filing shows Trump raked in $2bn in 2025
  • Anthropic says US has lifted export controls on Fable and Mythos AI models after security fears
  • Spielberg’s Disclosure Day is making some wonder: will we have real disclosure soon?
  • Shrinks on the verge of a nervous breakdown: how horror movies came for therapists
  • Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie review – two goofballs in search of a gig roll back the years
  • The best theatre to stream this month: all rise for Rosamund Pike’s Inter Alia
  • ‘Get away from there – run!’ The stunning film about love blossoming amid the carnage of Aleppo
  • 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
  • Minions & Monsters review – a smart premise descends into more of the same
  • 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
  • ‘I’m not a quitter!’ Rubén Blades, the salsa supremo who acted with Jack Nicholson, inspired Bad Bunny – and served as Panama’s tourism minister
  • 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

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