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Julie Burchill agrees to pay Ash Sarkar ‘substantial damages’ in libel case

Columnist apologises to journalist, acknowledging social media posts included ‘racist and misogynist’ comments

Julie Burchill abused me for being Muslim – yet she was cast as the victim

The columnist has apologised for her Islamophobic insults, but the issue goes way beyond her, says Ash Sarkar, a senior editor at Novara Media

The Columnist review – middle class writer on a murder spree

There is absurdist carnage as a journalist takes bloody real-life revenge on the keyboard warriors tormenting her

Ted K review – queasy inner life of the monkish, unhappy Unabomber

Sharlto Copley excels behind a straggly beard in this portrait of the serial terror-bomber, on a mission against modern technology

News Corp agrees deal with Google over payments for journalism

News Corp will receive ‘significant payments’ to feature news outlets in Google’s News Showcase

The Kiosk review – fond farewell to a Parisian newsstand

The decline of print could close a newspaper kiosk that’s been run for generations, and is warmly sketched in this witty film

Microsoft urges US and EU to follow Australian digital news code

Firm stood against Facebook and Google over plan to make tech giants pay news organisations

Bezos is handing over fronting Amazon, but not his grip on his creation

The Amazon founder gains time for other projects, such as space and newspapers, while still making the big decisions

Most of us are sticking to the lockdown rules, so why do we blame one another?

Fixating on the actions of a handful of ‘covidiots’ will only undermine compliance among the population as a whole, says psychologist Stephen Reicher

Control shift: why newspaper hacks are switching to Substack

An online platform where journalists sell content directly to subscribers is luring eminent voices away from traditional media

Facebook to pay UK media millions to license news stories

Social network agrees deal with mainstream outlets in face of government crackdown on its dominance of advertising

Judge denies Johnny Depp permission to appeal Sun libel action

Actor ordered to pay £630,000 after libel action against Sun over ‘wife beater’ allegations

Heard lost public sympathy for standing up against Depp assaults, says QC

Abused women expected to be ‘meek and subservient’ to receive public sympathy, says QC

Johnny Depp’s defeat in libel case hailed by domestic violence charities

The trial highlighted tactics used to silence and discredit victims, say campaigners

Johnny Depp loses libel case against Sun over claims he beat ex-wife Amber Heard

Pirates of Caribbean actor had sued newspaper publisher for damage to his reputation

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  • 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
  • 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

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