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Victory over Isis will stream live on Facebook. But defeat won’t

The war in Iraq is being broadcast 24/7. But don’t think for a moment that the authorities have surrendered their control over the media

Peter Thiel, who gave $1.25m to Trump, has called date rape ‘belated regret’

Facebook board member who donated to Donald Trump after sexual misconduct allegations wrote a 1995 book that attempted to discredit date rape

How a cancer group thwarted Facebook’s censorship: square breasts

Swedish Cancer Society’s original video, with animated images and information on how to conduct breast exams, was taken down by Facebook this week

Here’s a conversation starter: why is Facebook telling everyone everything I do?

The new Conversation Topics feature on the Facebook Messenger app tells you what your friends have been doing, what they like and what you could talk to them about

Facebook censors Le Monde’s mammogram screening photo

Social networking company apologises after picture of woman having mammogram with her breast exposed falls foul of its anti-nipple policy

ACLU finds social media sites gave data to company tracking black protesters

ACLU revealed Tuesday that Facebook, Twitter and Instagram gave ‘special access’ to Geofeedia, a controversial social media monitoring company

Workplace: now you can use Facebook at work – for work

The company’s office communication platform, a competitor to marketplace leader Slack, gets a makeover and a pricing structure

Facebook enjoys £11m UK tax credit despite £5bn global profit

Credit, which can be offset against future tax bills, may raise further questions about whether US group is paying its fair share

Facebook revenge pornography trial ‘could open floodgates’

Case of 14-year-old taking social network to court over naked picture has already resulted in others seeking legal advice

Facebook invests $250m more in VR as Zuckerberg shows off wireless Oculus

The company’s virtual reality wing will spend another $250m to develop new virtual reality content, as CEO says the future of VR will be social

Facebook’s inflated video metrics signals a need to define what a ‘view’ is

Shifting to video advertising may seem simple, but as Facebook’s inflated figures show, the industry needs to know what viewability really means

Facebook takes on Craigslist and eBay with new classified ad service

Marketplace will let Facebook users list items for sale, and could be an attempt to upend the crowded world of peer-to-peer selling

A tough sell: why Facebook’s e-commerce dream failed to take flight

The social network has never become the online shopping emporium once predicted. Will its most ambitious strategy yet change all that?

Inside Netflix’s Amanda Knox: ‘She was cast as a she-devil’

A new documentary on the 2007 Meredith Kercher murder traces how the tragic event morphed into salacious media entertainment – and talks to Knox about being reduced to a ‘sex-obsessed’ cartoon character

Rinstagram or Finstagram? The curious duality of the modern Instagram user

Behind many Instagram accounts featuring filtered selfies and sunkissed beaches is a second account reserved for close friends and full of wilfully unattractive shots

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  • Pro-One Nation Facebook groups appear to be run by foreign ‘meme factories’ that monetise content
  • Abbie Chatfield: ‘Someone told her worst dating story. I lay on the floor of the stage and screamed’
  • The AI bubble has further to run despite the looming crash
  • Tearing up the screen: BFI’s Rip It Up season rebels against tired teen stereotypes
  • Australia to double penalty for social media ban breaches to $99m as tech giants accused of ‘not doing enough’
  • Today programme suffers ‘body blow’ as BBC prioritises social and digital content
  • Screen time can damage under-twos’ development, landmark study suggests
  • Brassed Off review – stirring tale of coal and cornets moves Yorkshire audience to tears
  • Watching Brokeback Mountain kept me in the closet
  • Social media bans go global: big tech faces a reckoning after Australia’s crackdown
  • From Supergirl to Muse: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
  • Hikers lost in Kosciuszko national park rescued within five hours by AI drone
  • How Australian hero Karl Stefanovic took a sharp turn to the right – and fell from TV stardom
  • OpenAI staggers AI model release after Trump administration request
  • ‘Fork in the road’: CEO of Amazon-backed Rivian on why carmakers need to invest in EVs
  • Prime Day ends today – here are the 52 best deals to scoop up before they’re gone
  • O what a tangled web: unweaving the weirdest fan rumours surrounding Spider-Man: Brand New Day
  • The best fans to keep you cool in 2026 – tried and tested
  • Outrage as woman jailed for three years after criticising Somali government online
  • ‘I’m a soldier. I don’t have a gun, but I have a pen and a camera’: Mahnaz Mohammadi on fighting the Iranian regime
  • As billionaires’ wealth soars, US workers struggle: ‘The rich keep getting richer for no good reason’
  • Enola Holmes 3 to Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd Story – the seven best films to watch on TV this week
  • Glastonbury the Movie review – thirty years on, the sunset of a hippy dream in all its glory
  • Wanted: a new PM, a new James Bond, a new Doctor – and a UK that can agree on its leading characters
  • Strung review – far-fetched thriller awkwardly mixes Blumhouse and Tyler Perry
  • A little bird told her: scientist wins $100,000 prize for decoding birdsong
  • The Mission review – a surgeon saves lives in war-torn Gaza in a visceral portrait of human endurance
  • Australians to pay at least 20% more for iPads and Macbooks after Apple hikes prices citing AI
  • California billionaire tax will appear on ballot after deadline for deal passes
  • Apple raises iPad and MacBook prices, blaming cost of chips amid AI boom

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