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Facebook apes Clubhouse app with new audio tools

Zuckerberg announces features similar to buzz-generating app, which has shown potential of audio chat platforms

Priti Patel v Facebook is the latest in a 30-year fight over encryption

Governments have been clashing with tech companies for decades over user privacy

Facebook and fear in Manila: Maria Ressa’s fight for facts

Ex-CNN reporter and founder of the news site Rappler on life under the relentless social media assault of the Duterte regime

Mark Zuckerberg, the modern Bond villain, is now coming for your children

Instagram for kids? If the billionaire catches them early, he’ll have them for life

Mike Lindell’s new free speech network won’t let you use the Lord’s name in vain

The MyPillow CEO with a fierce allegiance to Trump thinks it will put Twitter and YouTube out of business – but will ban swearing and blasphemy

Facebook planned to remove fake accounts in India – until it realized a BJP politician was involved

Whistleblower points to double standard in Facebook’s enforcement of rules against powerful

Facebook has beefed up its ‘oversight board’, but any new powers are illusory

The social media giant is still trying to navigate controversial content, yet the problem remains the platform itself, says Emily Bell

Facebook users to get ‘independent’ appeal hearings against posts

Oversight Board braced for onslaught of cases concerning issues including blasphemy and hate speech

Life’s a Bitche: Facebook says sorry for shutting down town’s page

Ville de Bitche in north-east France had fallen foul of social network’s algorithm

Facebook knew of Honduran president’s manipulation campaign – and let it continue for 11 months

Juan Orlando Hernández falsely inflated his posts’ popularity for nearly a year after the company was informed about it

‘Facebook isn’t interested in countries like ours’: Azerbaijan troll network returns months after ban

State-backed harassment campaign targets journalists and dissidents in authoritarian country

How Facebook let fake engagement distort global politics: a whistleblower’s account

The inside story of Sophie Zhang’s battle to combat rampant manipulation as executives delayed and deflected

Revealed: the Facebook loophole that lets world leaders deceive and harass their citizens

A Guardian investigation exposes the breadth of state-backed manipulation of the platform

Another huge data breach, another stony silence from Facebook

The social media giant is still a law unto itself. Can anybody hold it to account?

Facebook ‘still too slow to act on groups profiting from Covid conspiracy theories’

Over 100 Instagram accounts are promoting dangerous antivax views and selling ‘detox’ products, investigation finds

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  • UK under-16s social media ban: which apps will be blocked and how will it work?
  • Starmer says he hopes social media ban for under-16s will come into force next spring – UK politics live
  • Angel’s Egg review – Mamoru Oshii’s dazzling 1985 anime is an eerie philosophical adventure
  • Social media to be banned in UK for under-16s, Starmer announces
  • The problem with ‘loneliness influencers’ isn’t their friendlessness – it’s the air of cosy defeatism
  • Dry Leaf review – three-hour amble around the football pitches of Georgia in search of a daughter
  • ‘More relevant now than ever’: how Virginia Woolf recaptured the cultural zeitgeist
  • ‘Distressingly beautiful and disorienting’: the Willem Dafoe film that only one person can see at a time
  • Europe is starting to break up with US big tech. But it’s still abiding by the Silicon Valley rulebook
  • Starmer to announce ‘Australia plus’ ban on social media for under-16s
  • A day in the life of a dancer who went viral for pretending to be a parakeet
  • Why is the UK launching an ‘Australia plus’ social media ban and how will it work?
  • Scientists are working on headphones that block annoying noises and allow the ones you love? I can’t wait!
  • Readers reply: Experts say we should use passkeys, but can a smartphone pin really be safer than a password?
  • Elon Musk and co may relish march of the robots but there must be AI boundaries in the workplace
  • ‘Have I been influenced, or is this actually me?’ How personal taste fell out of fashion
  • X accused of giving racists ‘impunity’ after refusing to bar N- and P-word posts
  • NHS staff battling wave of food supplement disinformation
  • ‘I should know better’: tech expert lost £70,000 in one simple phone call
  • Make platforms that promote violent content pay towards riot costs, Streeting says
  • UK government announces £132.5m after-school clubs package
  • Pioneering UK Nerve Lab harnesses AI to map effect of children’s screen time
  • ‘Loneliness influencers’ are racking up views. After a breakup, I see the appeal
  • ‘Why would you put a toxic product into the hands of a young child?’: director turned activist Beeban Kidron on why big tech needs its ‘tobacco moment’
  • ‘A movie for everyone, not just Drag Race fans’: stars of drag comedy Stop! That! Train! on making the summer’s funniest film
  • The Guide #246: Does World Cup fever leave you in a cold sweat? Here’s how to escape the footie
  • UK parents support an under-16 social media ban – but what do their children think?
  • From Olivia Rodrigo to The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
  • ‘Have you ever been around someone you just know is evil?’ Melinda French Gates on meeting Jeffrey Epstein, giving away billions, and her post-divorce peace
  • The right has created a false reality – fuelled by toxic images delivered straight to your phone

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