Channel 4 boss calls for TV industry to unite against profit-seeking ‘tech titans’
Alex Mahon accuses firms such as TikTok, Meta and YouTube of ‘wanton abandonment of the pursuit of truth’
Australians who get most of their news from commercial media more likely to believe in climate conspiracy, study finds
Exclusive: Monash University study suggests those who rely more on newspapers and public broadcasters more likely to score highly on ‘civic values’
Scans for the memories: why old games magazines are a vital source of cultural history – and nostalgia
As the Video Game History Foundation opens a new digitised archive, what can titles like Crash, Mega, Edge and GamesMaster tell us about the early days of gaming?
Elon Musk’s beef with Britain isn’t (only) about politics. It’s about tech regulation
Experts suspect X owner’s interest in UK is to put pressure on authorities working to codify a new online safety law
The EU wants to scan every message sent in Europe. Will that really make us safer?
Lawmakers argue that mass surveillance will help to protect children. But the implications for our privacy and security are staggering, says journalist Apostolis Fotiadis
Is TikTok a national security threat – or is the ban a smokescreen for superpower rivalry?
Washington looks happy for the video app to harvest users’ data – as long as China does not reap the rewards
Nick Clegg defends Meta’s removal of Facebook and Instagram factcheckers
Executive tells WEF in Davos the sites will still have ‘the industry’s most sophisticated community standards’
Jules Feiffer, award-winning political cartoonist and writer, dies at 95
The provocative Pulitzer prize-winner was known for his edgy comic strip and his screenplay for Carnal Knowledge
Rayner urged to approve Marlow film studios in test of Labour planning policy
Inquiry into plan backed by director James Cameron begins after council rejected it over use of green-belt land
Why is TikTok working again in the US as Trump takes office?
App has resumed operations after saying it received assurance over de facto ban, but its future remains uncertain
MrBeast’s degrading game show is a dystopian nightmare – perfect for America in 2025
Amazon’s Beast Games reflects the greed, narcissism and worship of aggro-capitalism that has brought us our second helping of Trump
An information dark age is upon us. I’m logging off
As Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos attempt to reshape our reality, my advice is to avoid their toxic platforms and wait it out
We tried banning our young son from watching YouTube…
It just led to him recreating its annoying content offline
On my radar: Naomi Alderman’s cultural highlights
The author of the bestselling The Power on her favourite video game, the courses she takes with the Open University, and why she is addicted to George Saunders’s substack
When kids set their parents’ screen time rules: ‘I hit my limit before I even get out of bed’
Would six-year-old Malakhi be strict? Could the grownups give up their phones? Three writers let their children set the rules