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Facebook must prioritise children’s wellbeing, Zuckerberg is told

UK campaigners write to chief executive with list of demands to ensure online safety of young people

Lawmakers seek to rein in big tech with bills aimed at competition and liability

One bill would prevent platforms from giving preference to their own products, the other would remove Section 230 protections

‘Insufficient and very defensive’: how Nick Clegg became the fall guy for Facebook’s failures

After election humiliation and Brexit, the former UK deputy prime minister swapped Westminster for a £2.7m job in Silicon Valley. The catch? Serving as the public face of the crisis-hit company

A Facebook health warning: inside the 15 October Guardian Weekly

Is the social network the 21st-century version of Big Tobacco?

Spot on or unfair? Facebook employees split on whistleblower Frances Haugen’s critique

Inside the notoriously insular company, employees’ perceptions of Haugen appear to be divided

TechScape: UK online safety bill could set tone for global social media regulation

Up for discussion in the Guardian tech newsletter: Facebook and Google will be watching closely as MPs and peers consider proposed landmark legislation

‘She opens the app and gets bombarded’: parents on Instagram, teens and eating disorders

Mothers describe their daughters’ dangerous experiences after whistleblower Frances Haugen’s testimony

Facebook: Nick Clegg avoids questions on whistleblower Haugen’s testimony

Facebook executive would not say if he believed platform bore responsibility for amplifying baseless claims of stolen election

The latest revelations mark the beginning of the end for the House of Zuckerberg

The Observer’s investigations into Facebook in 2018 exposed a toxic culture. But still the business thrived. That might be about to change

Frances Haugen takes on Facebook: the making of a modern US hero

The former employee exposed how the tech giant puts profit before the public good. Will her testimony change anything?

Supreme court, Facebook, Fed: three horsemen of democracy’s apocalypse

These unaccountable bodies hold increasing sway over US government. Their abuses of power affect us all

Facebook whistleblower testimony should prompt new oversight – Schiff

‘I think we need regulation to protect people’s private data,’ influential Democrat says in wake of Frances Haugen revelations

China is cutting its tech giants down to size. Should the west learn from this?

Xi Jinping has grasped a fundamental truth in his quest to win the technology race – that internet companies are all ultimately disposable

Facebook is ‘biased against facts’, says Nobel prize winner

Philippines journalist Maria Ressa says social media firm is threat to democracy and failing to halt spread of misinformation

‘Welcome to the party’: five past tech whistleblowers on the pitfalls of speaking out

Frances Haugen, the Facebook whistleblower, joined a growing list of Silicon Valley former employees to call out company policies

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  • Starmer says he hopes social media ban for under-16s will come into force next spring – UK politics live
  • UK under-16s social media ban: which apps will be blocked and how will it work?
  • The Toymaker’s Key review – steampunk sci-fi animation is eclectic if overwrought
  • How Australia’s social media ban has affected families six months on
  • ‘Loving our country sounds like an abused spouse saying they love their abuser’: Robert De Niro leads crowd in rallying cry against Trump
  • Social media firms hit back as Starmer announces ban for under-16s in UK
  • The man who bought Diane Keaton’s nail clippers also owns Whoopi Goldberg’s teapot: ‘It will have her fingerprints on it’
  • Disclosure Day: alien conspiracies, car chases and a jaw-dropping climax – discuss with spoilers
  • Familiar Touch review – Kathleen Chalfant is wonderful in subtle, sensual memory loss drama
  • Angel’s Egg review – Mamoru Oshii’s dazzling 1985 anime is an eerie philosophical adventure
  • The problem with ‘loneliness influencers’ isn’t their friendlessness – it’s the air of cosy defeatism
  • Dry Leaf review – three-hour amble around the football pitches of Georgia in search of a daughter
  • ‘More relevant now than ever’: how Virginia Woolf recaptured the cultural zeitgeist
  • ‘Distressingly beautiful and disorienting’: the Willem Dafoe film that only one person can see at a time
  • Europe is starting to break up with US big tech. But it’s still abiding by the Silicon Valley rulebook
  • Starmer to announce ‘Australia plus’ ban on social media for under-16s
  • A day in the life of a dancer who went viral for pretending to be a parakeet
  • Why is the UK launching an ‘Australia plus’ social media ban and how will it work?
  • Scientists are working on headphones that block annoying noises and allow the ones you love? I can’t wait!
  • Readers reply: Experts say we should use passkeys, but can a smartphone pin really be safer than a password?
  • Elon Musk and co may relish march of the robots but there must be AI boundaries in the workplace
  • ‘Have I been influenced, or is this actually me?’ How personal taste fell out of fashion
  • X accused of giving racists ‘impunity’ after refusing to bar N- and P-word posts
  • NHS staff battling wave of food supplement disinformation
  • ‘I should know better’: tech expert lost £70,000 in one simple phone call
  • Make platforms that promote violent content pay towards riot costs, Streeting says
  • UK government announces £132.5m after-school clubs package
  • Pioneering UK Nerve Lab harnesses AI to map effect of children’s screen time
  • ‘Loneliness influencers’ are racking up views. After a breakup, I see the appeal
  • ‘Why would you put a toxic product into the hands of a young child?’: director turned activist Beeban Kidron on why big tech needs its ‘tobacco moment’

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