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‘Killer of trust’: social media groups fuel misinformation in UK, report finds

Investigation reveals more than 4.4 million people live in ‘news deserts’ that lack dedicated local reporting

Confessions of a political liveblogger: ‘I enjoy it professionally – but, as a citizen, you can think the country’s going to hell in a handcart’

Andrew Sparrow has been writing the Guardian’s daily political live blog for more than 15 years. How does he cope with the relentless psychodrama of British politics?

My year with the robots: how Joanna Stern let AI into her home, work – and heart

In 2025, the tech journalist invited artificial intelligence to do nearly everything for her, including editing the book she was writing about the experiment. Some of it was useful, some not – but it was her time with a chatbot companion that really shook her

What do UK watchdog’s new rules on Google AI results mean for publishers?

Giving publishers power to block their content from being used in AI summaries will have global ramifications

Image of Thai police in sparkly dresses with handcuffed suspect turns out to be AI fake

Picture was created by administrator in charge of station’s Facebook account who wanted to create ‘friendlier image’

Guardian journalists win across categories at Press Awards in London

Political editor Pippa Crerar and features writer Simon Hattenstone top major categories and Malak A Tantesh wins for Gaza reporting

‘Watching us is like watching a cousin’: the online creators reshaping Africa’s news ecosphere

Africa is leading a change in news consumption habits – and transforming the lives of current affairs enthusiasts

Fashion’s Faustian pact: the high cost of Jeff Bezos’s Met Gala patronage

Billionaire’s role as honorary chair and main source of funding has led to boycotts and criticism event has lost its cachet

‘They’re supposed to be handmade’: zine creators fight to resist AI influence

Artists and writers argue scrappy nature of self-published booklets is incompatible with artificial intelligence

Media coverage of violence against women reaches ‘dismal’ low, report finds

Analysis finds stories citing terms of misogynistic abuse fell to 1.3% of global online news in 2025

Senior European journalist suspended over AI-generated quotes

Mediahuis suspends Peter Vandermeersch, who says he ‘fell into trap of hallucinations’, after investigation by newspaper where he was once editor-in-chief

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

While we’re seeking to fix what’s wrong with Britain, look hard at our policy-lite, sensation-seeking media

Mandelson, Trump, Send: all need explanation with thought and clarity. We must end this obsession with ‘hot takes’, says Roger Mosey, former head of BBC TV News

David Furnish calls alleged phone hacks of him and Elton John ‘an abomination’

Furnish says he and his husband felt ‘violated’ by the Daily Mail, which allegedly used information gained unlawfully

Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos stays silent as employees brace for cuts

Bezos has not publicly responded to several letters sent by Post staffers urging him to curb potential layoffs

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  • Can a $159 Bluetooth sleep mask help you snooze better? I tested to find out
  • How Belfast knife attack became the latest far-right ‘trigger event’
  • Crackdown on tech platforms will go ahead despite US intervention, says No 10
  • Peabo Bryson obituary
  • Disclosure Day review – close encounters of a deferred kind in Spielberg’s conspiracy spectacular
  • ‘We got banned from YouTube but they showed Saddam Hussein being hanged’: the wild viral visions of Romain Gavras
  • All signs point to Trump pushing AI growth
  • UK regulator orders social media firms to adopt measures to stop viral illegal content
  • Amazon’s main UK arm handed £7.6m tax credit as profits soar to £355m
  • I watched as Meta’s threats stopped Sarah Wynn-Williams from speaking – we must have stronger rights for whistleblowers
  • Bank of England warns of AI scams as deepfakes of Farage-Bailey fight spread
  • Think Musk the billionaire was bad? Brace yourself for Musk the trillionaire
  • ‘A man of great appetites’: what’s it like to be a dictator’s personal chef?
  • Signal One review – Dennis Quaid and David Thewlis ballast high-concept, low-risk first contact yarn
  • White House urges UK not to ban social media for under-16s
  • Pink Narcissus review – garish colour and dreamlike images in a homoerotic vision of 60s New York
  • Doctors and NHS could be sued for mistakes made by AI tools, report warns
  • Let this be a warning – if Europe worries about Trump, it has even more reason to fear JD Vance
  • Tuesday briefing: Is a social media ban in the UK enough to help protect young people?
  • World’s first wind-powered underwater datacentre starts operating in China
  • French star Patrick Bruel held by police investigating new sexual assault allegations
  • Plan for AI legal assistants in England and Wales ‘cannot replace funding and staff’, lawyers say
  • Child sexual abuse victims in England and Wales to get help to remove online images
  • OpenAI confidentially files for initial public offering on US stock market
  • Apple debuts revamped ‘Siri AI’ and new child safety features for iPhones and iPads
  • The Guardian view on children and the internet: rolling back big tech’s untrammelled power
  • Rushed social media ban for under-16s in UK could ‘unravel’, charity warns
  • Child phone nudity law could largely end online child sexual abuse if widely adopted, Jess Phillips claims – as it happened
  • Revealed: the ‘less lethal’ weapons Australian police don’t want you to know about
  • If Australian datacentres are going to power the AI revolution, we deserve a fair return

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