Warner Bros CEO David Zaslav in line for $700m payout from Paramount deal
One of the best-paid executives in Hollywood has already made $113m after selling shares in WBD this month
TV tonight: inside Facebook and Meta with ex-staff and whistleblowers
Marianna Spring goes Inside the Rage Machine. Plus: the finale of the brilliant comedy Small Prophets. Here’s what to watch this evening
Royals and celebrities warned to watch words as lip-reading videos go viral
Advisers say to ‘assume the cameras are always rolling’ as exchanges can be decoded in seconds and posted online
AI-generated Iran images are widespread. How do we know what to believe?
Fake pictures look authentic – and authentic ones get mistaken for fake. Here are three rules for navigating the war coverage
The kill line v Chinamaxxing: a window into how China and the US see each other
In China, one social media trend hangs on the idea that a life in the US is always one step from disaster, while another in the US has teenagers revelling in Chinese lifestyle hacks
‘IG is a drug’: jury to deliberate as US trial over social media addiction wraps up
Meta and YouTube accused of creating harmful products in trial seen as a bellwether for attitudes towards social media
Google’s former Europe boss close to becoming next head of BBC, sources say
Appointment of Matt Brittin as director general would be latest sign of big tech’s power in media world
Official BookTok chart set to launch in the UK
Offering a monthly Top 20 rundown, the ranking will combine retail sales data with social media engagement on TikTok
Surely if you rule the manosphere, you can be your own boss? These influencers aren’t even that
Content creators claim they’ve escaped the 9 to 5, yet as Louis Theroux’s new show reveals, they are mere serfs to algorithms and audiences, says freelance journalist Elle Hunt
I clicked on an Instagram post about a happy dog – and opened a hellish portal
Little did I know this cheerful animal had just died. Ever since, my algorithm has been serving me up more of the same ...
Ministers must act more quickly on deepfakes to protect women and girls, Kendall says
Exclusive: Technology secretary urges tech companies to do more to tackle online misogyny
X suspends 800m accounts in one year amid ‘massive’ scale of manipulation attempts
Social media company tells MPs of continual fight against state-backed efforts, with Russia being most prolific
Effi o Blaenau review – Greek myth retelling Iphigenia in Splott becomes blistering Welsh-language film
Leisa Gwenllian is a force of nature as working-class heroine Effi in this big screen version of Gary Owen’s one-woman play
Ben Affleck sells his AI postproduction startup to Netflix
Announcing the InterPositive deal, the actor says he was moved from being scared of the technology to embracing it
Italian activists and journalist targeted by spyware in 2024, prosecutors confirm
Investigation finds three were hacked by Paragon spyware at same time, potentially fuelling questions for government