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I spent 43 hours on my phone last week – I can’t join Twitter too

Call it cowardice, stubbornness or stupidity, but I feel tweeting would be like opening the gates to hell

Regulation needed to save Australian journalism from Facebook and Google, watchdog says

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says digital behemoths’ market power is weakening the news media

Will Chinese firm’s stake in Reddit normalise censorship?

Rights activists have justifiable concerns about investment in western media companies

Trump, ‘blackmail’ and a Pecker: Bezos delivers scandal with something for everyone

This convoluted tale – with lurid pics, private investigators and, naturally, Trump – seems to have captured the spirit of the age

The National Enquirer v Bezos: scandal hits the scandal sheet

Interest is growing in the activities of a tabloid increasingly entwined with Trump

Satirical news website the Daily Mash sold for £1.2m

Site known for spoof headlines shared on social media bought by Bath-based Digitalbox

Jeff Bezos: the Amazon billionaire and Trump bete noire

From business started in garage to world’s richest man and collision course with Trump

Jeff Bezos accuses National Enquirer owner of ‘extortion and blackmail’

Amazon chief alleges tabloid threatened to publish nude images of him

Bezos blackmail claims add new twist to tale of Trump, Russia and the media

Trump’s vitriol toward Amazon CEO and long ties to National Enquirer collided last month, when tabloid ran story on Bezos’s affair

Journalism is foundering, but is there a light at the end of the tunnel?

As print titles continue to close, two startups may offer an answer to the news industry’s woe

What 2,000 job cuts tell us: the free market kills digital journalism

Big commercial online news providers are shedding staff in large numbers as social media firms swallow advertising revenues

Online women’s magazine The Pool enters administration

Journalists face redundancy after rescue talks fail, in further blow to online news outlets

The Pool, women’s site co-founded by Lauren Laverne, in crisis talks

Company’s director says it is ‘not over yet’ but staff say they are waiting for January wages

Kate and Meghan’s staff seek social media firms’ help over online abuse

Royal duchesses’ Instagram and Twitter accounts plagued by vitriolic messages

The media’s response to the death of Gigi Wu, the ‘Bikini Hiker’, is shameful

The social media personality, who died while trekking, has been treated appallingly. She deserved so much better

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  • AI absolutism is breaking our brains. The apocalyptic future we’re being sold isn’t inevitable
  • ‘Now they can’t afford me’: Steven Spielberg was turned down to direct Bond – twice
  • Stop! That! Train! review – RuPaul-led zany drag comedy is a riot
  • The best robot vacuums in the UK to keep your home clean and dust free, tested
  • Strictly Ballroom review – Baz Luhrmann’s dizzying, dance-tastic swirl of fun is a classic ugly-duckling tale
  • Met police chief calls for law to make stolen phones ‘unusable bricks’
  • ‘They kissed, and the audience roared’: the new musical about gay activists and striking miners
  • French star Patrick Bruel charged with rape and sexual assault
  • Labor to set terms for datacentre and AI growth as it vows not to repeat mistakes of resources boom
  • Dead Poets Society director Peter Weir receives lifetime achievement award at Sydney film festival
  • Stephen Ogilvie’s family appeal for calm on second night of disorder – as it happened
  • Elon Musk’s X not facing action from UK government over posts inciting violence in Belfast
  • Glenn Close and Ridley Scott among names set to receive honorary Oscars
  • The Guardian view on far-right violence: digital radicalisation is threatening democracy
  • Sales of Meta whistleblower’s memoir soar after Hay festival ‘silencing’
  • How to Talk Australians: The Movie review – viral web series lampooning Aussie culture gets big-screen adaptation
  • First trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s Facebook sequel The Social Reckoning
  • Actor Tyler Mane reveals he is having treatment for rare male breast cancer
  • Under the Shadow review – Leila Farzad is fantastic in this nerve-shredding tale of 80s Tehran
  • From An Evening With Gary Lineker to Dear England: what to watch to warm up for the World Cup
  • Peter Asher on being music’s incredible ‘Everywhere Man’: ‘The secret is simple’
  • ‘It’s not about heroes and villains’: the triumphant return of long-lost indie I Shot Andy Warhol
  • Should you send that midnight text? 11 essential rules for phone etiquette
  • The best films of 2026 so far
  • Chinese activist in UK told by X that abusive deepfakes do not breach rules
  • Boogie Nights review – Paul Thomas Anderson’s porn epic is still gaudy, seedy fun
  • Global brands ‘likely’ using mineral that funds rebels accused of atrocities in DRC, investigation finds
  • 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

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