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Facebook is making more and more money from you. Should you be paid for it?

Figures show a 20% increase in the amount of advertising revenue generated by the average Facebook user. Is it time you were remunerated?

Facebook joins YouTube in showing 360-degree videos – including Star Wars

Social network giving virtual-reality content a boost in its news feed, with other partners including GoPro, LeBron James and Vice

Instagram passes 400m users as young shun tweets for photo op

Photo and video-sharing app’s current challenge, however, is to make money from a youthful audience for whom Twitter is ‘barely on the radar’

Facebook etiquette – some simple guidelines

If you’re itching for Facebook to launch its ‘dislike’ button, try these alternative ways of showing your displeasure

Facebook’s new opt-out for tracking ads is not enough, says privacy expert

Social network provides new opt-out tool for behavioural adverts, but doesn’t stop collection of user data

UK war on encryption will struggle without the US onside

UK eavesdropping plans must deal with US internet firms’ security, users’ encryption and a White House retreat on legal action

Facebook to roll out a ‘dislike’ button … what’s not to like?

Mark Zuckerberg recognises that ‘not every moment is a good moment’. The new function will offer a refreshing antidote to the social network’s relentless optimism

Facebook working on ‘dislike button’, Zuckerberg says

The social media site’s users want the ability to express empathy toward certain posts, says Facebook CEO: ‘Not every moment is a good moment’

Facebook likes move to much bigger UK headquarters

Social media company increases office space again with change to controversial London development

Terry Gilliam laughs off Variety’s dead Python blunder

Film director takes to Facebook to apologise for his own ‘death’ after website publishes premature obituary

Facebook’s new digital assistant ‘M’ will need to earn your trust

Just like Siri and Cortana, M will be fuelled by your personal data – this trust it expects must be earned and backed up by rules

Star Wars: The Force Awakens to open in Europe before US

British fans will get to see JJ Abrams’ ultra-hyped reboot on 17 December, a day ahead of those in the US but behind France

Future of virtual reality lies in the hands of developers

The fate of virtual reality could be decided by Hollywood and gaming, so how can these creative industries make the most of the new tech?

Instagram advertising goes global with new TV-style formats

Facebook-owned photo-sharing platform rolls out ad service to 38 markets and adds new formats including landscape-shaped photo and video

From relationships to revolutions: seven ways Facebook has changed the world

One in seven people worldwide used the social network on one day this week, says Mark Zuckerberg. Here is how it has changed our lives – for better or worse

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  • Meta bosses grilled over decision to cut ‘censorship’ that has potentially unleashed more antisemitic content
  • A Place in the Sun review – subversive exposé of picture-postcard luxury in the Canary Islands
  • Sennheiser Momentum 5 headphones review: great sound meets exceptional battery life
  • China wants to solve the hardest problem in robotics – making hands
  • AI poses ‘Hiroshima’-style threat to humanity without global rules, says Cooper
  • Freddy the German: psyop, mirror to US rapacity or Tocqueville in a CR7 shirt?
  • ‘In stories like this, the data and the methodology are key’: when private equity meets public service journalism
  • What’s Kylie’s favourite masking tape? How does Lena Dunham train pigs? It’s all out there – and I’m loving it
  • The Story of Documentary Film (The 1980s) review – Mark Cousins educates and intrigues once more
  • ‘Tough pill to swallow’: LadBible boss on the traffic hit from Meta’s feed shake-up
  • Bipartisan bill fails to protect US consumers from datacenters’ true costs, critics warn
  • From ‘heat panic’ to ‘sacrificed at the altar’: Europe’s air conditioning culture wars heat up
  • NHS to use AI on its app to direct patients to appropriate services
  • Doctors’ soaring use of AI scribes prompts Australian government warning over privacy
  • Elon Musk posted twice as often on UK race and immigration as about SpaceX in IPO run-up
  • OpenAI’s apparent failure to visit key site raises questions over UK investment
  • Birdsong data from Merlin ID app to help global biodiversity project
  • As auto costs rise, will the US miss the golden age of electric vehicles?
  • ‘There’s excitement in the air’: how America fell back in love with indie cinemas
  • How AI is changing language
  • Farewell to Jackass, the finest catalogue of male idiocy – it could only go on for so long
  • The Guide #250: All the US/UK cultural crossovers you may have missed but need to read about
  • From Madonna to Minions & Monsters: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
  • Britain has so many stories. The reason we fund the arts together is so we can tell them
  • Burning flags, busty blondes and bison skulls: 48 photographs that capture America at 250
  • AI prey: why watchdogs are telling parents to protect children from nudification apps
  • The Guardian view on how culture is taking on tech: the ultimate handheld device
  • UK parents warned over posting images of children amid AI sexual abuse fears
  • Americans disgusted at Trump earning $1bn from crypto as president: ‘Obviously a grift’
  • Man charged with manslaughter over Tesla crash originally blamed on car’s self-driving mode

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