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Tweets versus Wall Street: analysts fear for Twitter in the battle for advertising

The social network’s results and revenues are failing to impress investors – especially when compared with Facebook’s and Google’s

If your Facebook feed doesn’t bring you joy, KonMari your friend list

So you just discovered that some of your social media connections are unmitigated jerks. It might be time to consciously uncouple from them

Sheryl Sandberg: employee with cancer prompted free egg-freezing policy

Facebook COO explains for the first time why the company controversially decided to pay up to $20,000 for female employees to freeze their eggs

I know who you Skyped last summer: how Hollywood plays on our darkest digital fears

Hit horror Unfriended takes place entirely on social media and computer screens. So if the genre really is a barometer for the anxieties of an age, what does that say about the world we now live in?

Facebook ‘excited’ about ads potential as it reaches 4bn daily video views

‘We believe mobile video will become more important to marketers over time,’ says Sheryl Sandberg, with 75% of views happening on mobiles

Traders ‘unlike’ Facebook shares after first-quarter revenues miss expectations

Social media company took in $3.54bn, just shy of Wall Street forecasts, as expenses jumped 83% from first quarter of 2014

You’ve sold 17 million albums and you want to pay me nothing? Pat Pope’s row with Garbage

When the managers of indie giants Garbage asked photographer Pat Pope to use his pictures for no fee, he made a stand

Who is winning the election battle on social media?

Halfway there: This isn’t the first election to be contested on social media, but it has seen parties and candidates engaging with Facebook, Twitter and others like never before

Social media cauldron of hate to players a sad reflection of modern life

Number of discriminatory posts makes for depressing reading. Can anything be done by football authorities, police and internet companies?

Is online video the saviour of fragmented digital marketing?

Fragmentation and complexity have long been the biggest barriers to digital marketing’s advancement – maturing video tech is solving many of these issues

TV industry faces its ‘ketchup’ moment: ‘Mobile is now the first screen’

France Télévisions’ director of future media Eric Scherer on the trends providing headaches and huge opportunities alike for television firms

Step into Zuckworld: rollerblading and selfie stumps at the new Facebook HQ

Take a first look inside Mark Zuckerberg’s gargantuan new office designed by Frank Gehry, which has a real-life Facebook wall, a rollerblade fun park and a Why Room. Oh the fun they must have

#FreeTheNipple: liberation or titillation?

Can a global movement that relies on photos of naked breasts really be one in the eye for patriarchy?

20 best iPhone and iPad apps and games this week

Sneakers, Endless Wordplay, myHealthPal, Attack the Light, DomiNations, Boss Monster, Riff, Marvel Mighty Heroes and more

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  • AI surveillance is being supercharged – and it will chill social progress
  • The Guest review – Trine Dyrholm pulls out all the stops as a bipolar mother in dysfunctional family drama
  • AI altering meaning of users’ drafts on issues from abortion to climate, study finds
  • Robert Richardson: The White Devil review – tempestuous DoP’s relationship with A-list directors laid bare
  • The one change that worked: I banned myself from social media – and my children have never been happier
  • ‘Impossible to be a mom’: new film shines light on how America fails its mothers
  • Couples Weekend review – Alexandra Daddario annd Josh Gad lead spicy comedy of marital melee
  • ‘Cosy competency porn’: why The Post is my feelgood movie
  • Israeli command system identified 850,000 targets in Gaza and Lebanon wars, says supplier
  • Shoot the People review – a powerful portrait of a talented yet controversial photographer
  • ‘It’s smoke and mirrors’: hope turns to fear in Scottish village chosen for AI datacentre
  • What are Britain’s AI growth zones and are the plans feasible or ‘complete bunk’?
  • Revealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise
  • 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
  • ‘It was pretty depressing when Stranger Things ended’: Finn Wolfhard on growing up on TV – and his new life in music
  • 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

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