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Tech giants are happy to do Modi’s bidding in return for access to the Indian market

The Indian leader’s autocratic tendencies do not seem to have posed great ethical difficulties for Facebook and Twitter

Mark Zuckerberg, the modern Bond villain, is now coming for your children

Instagram for kids? If the billionaire catches them early, he’ll have them for life

Facebook says it has reached net zero emissions

Emissions cut by 94% in three years, and company is aiming for net zero across its supply chain by 2030

Photo-sharing is back: how social media has framed the pandemic

Pictures of pubs and haircuts as UK Covid restrictions eased highlight how our digital lives have changed

Advocates say kids’ Instagram product would ‘put young users at great risk’

Children’s health advocates urged Mark Zuckerberg to abandon the plan citing the negative effects of social media on children

Facebook planned to remove fake accounts in India – until it realized a BJP politician was involved

Whistleblower points to double standard in Facebook’s enforcement of rules against powerful

Facebook has beefed up its ‘oversight board’, but any new powers are illusory

The social media giant is still trying to navigate controversial content, yet the problem remains the platform itself, says Emily Bell

Facebook users to get ‘independent’ appeal hearings against posts

Oversight Board braced for onslaught of cases concerning issues including blasphemy and hate speech

Life’s a Bitche: Facebook says sorry for shutting down town’s page

Ville de Bitche in north-east France had fallen foul of social network’s algorithm

‘Facebook isn’t interested in countries like ours’: Azerbaijan troll network returns months after ban

State-backed harassment campaign targets journalists and dissidents in authoritarian country

How Facebook let fake engagement distort global politics: a whistleblower’s account

The inside story of Sophie Zhang’s battle to combat rampant manipulation as executives delayed and deflected

Revealed: the Facebook loophole that lets world leaders deceive and harass their citizens

A Guardian investigation exposes the breadth of state-backed manipulation of the platform

Another huge data breach, another stony silence from Facebook

The social media giant is still a law unto itself. Can anybody hold it to account?

Facebook ‘still too slow to act on groups profiting from Covid conspiracy theories’

Over 100 Instagram accounts are promoting dangerous antivax views and selling ‘detox’ products, investigation finds

Who will deal with your online presence when you die? How to create a ‘digital will’

Making a plan now can prevent identity theft, save records and stop friends getting painful pop-up reminders when you’re gone

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  • Condemned to plutocracy? The relentless rise of US inequality
  • Brands using AI-generated influencers to promote products on social media
  • Suppliers unable to chase fees after film producer’s 50 companies are struck off
  • To the tablet and beyond: does Toy Story 5 go hard enough on technology?
  • Texas environmentalists lose bid to block Musk’s SpaceX from closing beach
  • ‘Once my tummy stopped shaking, I was absorbed by the scale, spectacle and wonder’: your Steven Spielberg film favourites
  • Key Trump allies and Musk on leaked list for secretive Peter Thiel retreat
  • ‘How do I deal with my rage? I put it in everything I do’: Killing Eve’s Sandra Oh on fury, friendship and hitting her prime in midlife
  • Social media bans are trending. But it’s too late for my son and me
  • Skeleton of the world’s rarest marine mammal preserved by digital imaging
  • A viral doomsday scenario aims to shake Europe out of its AI complacency
  • Granta stops publishing short story award winners over AI controversy
  • From Toy Story 5 to The Bear: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
  • I dived into my digital past to revisit my most cringe teenage moments – and realised how lucky I am to not be young and online today
  • Can we electrify the world? Ambition moves from nerdish backwater to centre stage
  • The Guardian view on John Williams and Steven Spielberg: a partnership that changed cinema
  • The Rev Michael Humphreys obituary
  • 45 Years review – Gabriel Byrne and Geraldine James mark an anniversary for the ages
  • How Refugee Week film festival brings migrants’ experience home
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  • The UK’s social media ban for under-16s has just empowered big tech
  • Luca Guadagnino’s Sam Altman movie dropped by Amazon after it announces OpenAI partnership
  • Read a book? Join a club? Stare at a wall? Social media alternatives for under-16s
  • ‘It’s a scam’: Americans express unease over SpaceX’s influence on retirement savings
  • Bologna’s niche festival of forgotten films captures the streaming generation
  • Anya Taylor-Joy will make a brilliant elf assassin in Hunt for Gollum. But it’s a movie we don’t need
  • Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s new film shines a light on the human cost of unregulated social media
  • Avatar: Fire and Ash to Project Hail Mary – the seven best films to watch on TV this week
  • You can handle the truth! Why cinema suddenly loves conspiracy theories

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