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All I want for 2021 is to see Mark Zuckerberg up in court

The tech giants’ law-free bonanza is coming to an end on both sides of the Atlantic, but let’s speed up the process

Tech platforms vowed to address racial equity: how have they fared?

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google and Amazon issued statements in response to Black Lives Matter this year but did they follow through?

Facebook to close Irish holding companies at centre of tax dispute

Intellectual property to be repatriated to the US after IRS said it was owed $9bn in taxes

Open thread: what’s the funniest thing you’ve seen (on the internet) this year?

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‘This is big’: US lawmakers take aim at once-untouchable big tech

A flurry of lawsuits, deemed the biggest antitrust action since the 1970s, mark a stunning reversal of fortunes for Silicon Valley

Facebook’s attempt to vilify Apple looks like sour grapes

Analysis: Facebook says objections to new Apple feature that affects apps are bid to defend small businesses – but do we believe it?

Facebook oversight board says it ‘won’t shy away’ from tackling Trump-style disinformation

Australian board member Nic Suzor says independent body ‘is not blind’ to election fraud conspiracies or hate speech

If the UK really wants to be a sovereign nation, it should stand up to big tech

The government has come up with a clever new way of regulating the digital marketplace – but will it ever become law?

The US government wants to break up Facebook. Good – it’s long overdue

America broke up logging companies in the 1840s, Standard Oil in the 1910s, and AT&T in the 1980s. It’s time to take on big tech

Facebook faces biggest legal battle in years as US officials launch lawsuits

Regulators and 48 attorney generals take on company over antitrust concerns

Facebook lawsuits: the biggest tech battle yet, and one that is long overdue

Analysis: The biggest antitrust case in a generation has been compared to the years-long lawsuit against Microsoft in 1998

Facebook’s ‘monopoly’ must be split up, US and states say in major lawsuits

Prosecutor says company has used power ‘to crush rivals’, with allegations centered on acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp

Digital watchdog’s takeover powers might tame Facebook and Google at last

The UK’s Digital Markets Unit is likely to have powers to protect startups from the giants, and about time too

Facebook faces antitrust allegations over deals for Instagram and WhatsApp

Deals that brought the top four social media companies under Facebook rule would be violations if they were considered a threat

Zuckerberg threatened to pull investment from the UK

Minutes of a 2018 meeting show Facebook chief complaining UK was anti-tech and saying he might look elsewhere in Europe to invest

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  • 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

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