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Fears AI factcheckers on X could increase promotion of conspiracy theories

Former UK minister says platform, which will use AI to draft community notes, is ‘leaving it to bots to edit the news’

Aaron Sorkin’s The Social Network sequel officially in development

Oscar-winning writer returns to subject of his 2010 hit for follow-up based on Wall Street Journal series on Facebook

Misogyny in the metaverse: is Mark Zuckerberg’s dream world a no-go area for women?

Graphic sexual content, bullying, abuse and threats of violence are rife in the metaverse – and the NSPCC says a huge proportion of online grooming offences take place on Meta-owned products. Is it too late to change course?

Facebook and Instagram owner Meta to enable AI ad creation by end of next year

Move sends shock waves through traditional media industry by posing threat to advertising agencies

What to do if you can’t get into your Facebook or Instagram account

How to prove your identity after your account gets hacked and how to improve security for the future

Liz Truss to launch ‘uncensored’ social network to counter mainstream media

Former PM says she wants to protect free speech after being ‘cut off at the knees’ by ‘the elite’ while at No 10

Meta blocks livestreaming by teenagers on Instagram

Under-16s will be barred from using the app’s Live feature unless they have parental permission

Meta faces £1.8bn lawsuit over claims it inflamed violence in Ethiopia

Son of murdered academic calls on Facebook owner to ‘radically change how it moderates dangerous content’

Amazing: of all the books in all the world Mr Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to ban, it’s the one about him

Whether the Meta boss and his ex-lieutenant Sheryl Sandberg are truly beyond awful is neither here nor there. I thought he was done with factchecking, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Lean In, said Sheryl Sandberg – but after this week, can we ever see her or Facebook in the same light again?

The new memoir about Sandberg and Mark Zuckerberg is billed as an exposé – but it feels like a morality tale for our times, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

Revealed: gambling firms secretly sharing users’ data with Facebook without permission

Betting companies secretly track visitors to their sites before sending data to parent company Meta

We didn’t click ‘consent’ on any gambling website. So how did Facebook know where we’d been?

In an experiment, we surfed sites without making a wager or agreeing to data sharing. Our Meta feed filled up with betting ads

Jesse Eisenberg no longer wants to be ‘associated’ with Mark Zuckerberg

The actor, who played the Facebook founder in The Social Network, criticised Meta’s decision to scrap factcheckers

‘Are we dating the same guy?’: Women turn to Facebook to uncover cheating and violence

Experts say use of groups to warn others about dangerous men is indictment on governments’ failure to keep women safe

Trump may smell money in saving TikTok, but there’s a whiff of platform power too

Whatever deal the US president is eyeing over the app, it is further proof some digital giants wield disproportionate clout

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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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