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Who will choose the next US president – the American people, or Facebook?

The social media titans are more powerful than politicians. But it doesn’t have to be this way, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

A historic antitrust hearing in Congress has put big tech on notice

We learned that antitrust cases and new forms of regulation may be on the way for Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google

Google and Facebook to be forced to share revenue with media in Australia under draft code

Consumer watchdog unveils ‘hundreds of millions’ in potential fines under code drawn up after talks stalled between tech and news companies

Tech giants’ shares soar as companies benefit from Covid-19 pandemic

Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google reported positive quarterly results even as overall US economic growth fell by 32.9%

The winners and losers of the big tech congressional hearings

The chief executives of Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook endured an uncomfortable day before Congress

Congress forced Silicon Valley to answer for its misdeeds. It was a glorious sight

The five and a half hour long hearing on Capitol Hill offered a stunning illustration of the extent of misdeeds by big tech

Congress’s historic tech hearing suggests antitrust crackdown could come soon

Analysis: heated exchanges raise concern over anticompetitive behavior as chair warns of companies’ ‘monopoly power’

‘This should never have happened’: lawmakers condemn Facebook’s Instagram acquisition – as it happened

Jerry Nadler unimpressed with Mark Zuckerberg’s answer on Instagram deal, while Amazon boss Jeff Bezos accused of hypocrisy – follow live

‘Too much power’: Congress grills top tech CEOs in combative antitrust hearing

Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Google executives face criticism over their companies’ unfair online dominance

‘Big companies aren’t bad’: Zuckerberg and other tech CEOs to testify in historic antitrust hearing

Chief executives of Amazon, Google and Apple will also testify as part of high-powered investigation into tech industry

US thinktank linked to Google donations criticised ‘problematic’ ACCC digital media inquiry

The Global Antitrust Institute last year submitted a 24-page condemnation of preliminary findings made by Australia’s competition watchdog

Google commits to vast London office despite rise of remote working

Tech giant will allow all global staff to work from home until July 2021 as building work in King’s Cross continues

Billionaire bosses to feel the heat over tech giants’ massive wealth and power

Extraordinary hearing will see some of the richest men in history called to account for their firms’ market dominance

Google employees will work from home until at least summer 2021

Sundar Pichai reportedly made the decision last week after debate among an internal group of top executives

ACCC sues Google for collecting Australian users’ data without informed consent

Consumer watchdog alleges tech giant increased targeted advertising by tracking users, affecting ‘millions of Australians’

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  • Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham have met away from No 10 to discuss transition – as it happened
  • Quantum of Solace: a heartbroken James Bond is fuelled by rage in Daniel Craig’s most underrated 007 film
  • US AI stock sell-off shakes markets from Wall Street to Asia
  • You’re only supposed to blow the bloody hooves off: AI Michael Caine narrates Odyssey audiobook
  • Will California’s billionaire tax proposal make it to ballots?
  • AI in the classroom prompts tide of concern from US parents and experts
  • How to Live on Earth review – Benedict Cumberbatch exudes positivity in response to the climate crisis
  • Majority of datacenters are vulnerable to climate threats like floods and fires, study finds
  • Australia ‘sleepwalking’ into AI crisis and ‘tech bro free-for-all’, says Greens senator
  • Sizzle reels: nine films to watch in a heatwave
  • ‘I’ve had a huge life, so I needed a big budget’: Madonna says biopic was scrapped after ‘falling out’ with studio
  • Rory Kennedy revisits Boeing in new film sparked by whistleblower’s death: ‘We’ve got to stay at this’
  • 500 Miles review – kids hit the road to visit Irish grandad Bill Nighy in YA tearjerker
  • ‘Climate change is a form of oppression’: the voices affected most by environmental crisis
  • The Morrigan review – spirit of pagan demon queen unleashed in Irish burial chamber horror
  • The 31 best Prime Day deals in the US on things our editors actually tested and love
  • The 24 best anti-Prime Day deals for Amazon skeptics in the US – from Best Buy, REI and more
  • Landship review – soldiers yearn for tinned meat in muddy first world war drama that stays inside the tank
  • Self-doubt, burnout … and Taylor Swift: why Toy Story 5 is the ultimate millennial girl movie
  • Lost memoir of Hiroshima survivor found after decades in US archive
  • Met to expand use of live facial recognition into central London by Christmas
  • UK plans to give established media more visibility on YouTube and TikTok
  • HR consultant wins English court case using AI lawyer in apparent legal first
  • Two Britons plead guilty to £39m 2024 cyber-attack on Transport for London
  • The best LED face masks in the UK, tested: 11 light therapy devices that are worth the hype
  • Angry and lonely after my marriage ended, I came dangerously close to embracing the manosphere
  • Tesla drivers crash into swimming pool and home in separate US incidents
  • Once Upon a Time in Holyhead: Quentin Tarantino and Kylie Minogue shooting film in Porthcawl
  • AI models capable of devastating attacks on governments and business months away, rare Five Eyes statement warns
  • Pitfall review – big-hole survival horror is as if cast of Friends strayed into Deliverance

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