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Facebook says it may quit Europe over ban on sharing data with US

EU court in July ruled there were insufficient safeguards against snooping by US intelligence agencies

Facebook suspends environmental groups despite vow to fight misinformation

Facebook blames mistake in system for restrictions on groups including Greenpeace USA

The Social Dilemma: a wake-up call for a world drunk on dopamine?

The new Netflix docudrama is a valiant if flawed attempt to address our complacency about surveillance capitalism

Medical experts v anti-vaxxers: the Covid-19 information battle

Scientists face potential struggle to convince people of vaccine safety as celebrities join misinformation chorus

Twitter and Google join Facebook in tightening rules on US election claims

Platforms will target unverified claims of election rigging and premature results declarations

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook won’t remove anti-vaccine posts despite Covid concerns

Social media chief denies Facebook’s algorithms are designed to push viewpoints ‘that are going to kind of enrage people’

‘A climate change-scale problem’: how the internet is destroying us

The Social Dilemma, a new Netflix film, meets former tech executives and developers who helped build the online world – and think it’s causing serious harm

Morrison warns Facebook and Google he won’t respond well to any threats over news code

PM says he supports ACCC over paying for news content amid escalating campaign by big tech companies

Facebook removes Patriot Prayer pages in bid to halt ‘violent social militias’

Joey Gibson, founder of group with 45,000 followers accuses Facebook of double standard

I’m a freelance writer. A Russian media operation targeted and used me

PeaceData, seemingly a leftwing news outlet, offered me a column. I should have known it was too good to be true

Facebook says it will flag any Trump effort to declare premature victory

Network, which has been condemned for failing to police propaganda, to also ban political ads in final week of 2020 race

Regional publishers hit back at Facebook’s ‘inflammatory’ threat to ban news sharing in Australia

The president of Country Press Australia, Bruce Ellen, says the social media giant’s response is ‘preemptive’ of the negotiation process

Facebook faces grilling by MPs in India over anti-Muslim hate speech

Social media site denies any bias towards ruling Hindu nationalist BJP party

Google and Facebook should pay to use ABC and SBS content, ACCC told

Advocates say funds collected from tech giants should be used to set up an independent public interest journalism fund

Zuckerberg blames contractors for failing to remove Kenosha militia’s ‘call to arms’

Facebook CEO points to ‘operational mistake’ by teams meant to bar organizations deemed dangerous

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  • The UK’s social media ban for under-16s has just empowered big tech
  • The UK’s social media ban for under-16s has just empowered big tech
  • Luca Guadagnino’s Sam Altman movie dropped by Amazon after it announces OpenAI partnership
  • Luca Guadagnino’s Sam Altman movie dropped by Amazon after it announces OpenAI partnership
  • Read a book? Join a club? Stare at a wall? Social media alternatives for under-16s
  • Read a book? Join a club? Stare at a wall? Social media alternatives for under-16s
  • ‘It’s a scam’: Americans express unease over SpaceX’s influence on retirement savings
  • Bologna’s niche festival of forgotten films captures the streaming generation
  • Anya Taylor-Joy will make a brilliant elf assassin in Hunt for Gollum. But it’s a movie we don’t need
  • How Refugee Week film festival brings migrants’ experience home
  • Avatar: Fire and Ash to Project Hail Mary – the seven best films to watch on TV this week
  • You can handle the truth! Why cinema suddenly loves conspiracy theories
  • On the trail of the dotcom queen: how Julie Meyer left a pattern of unpaid bills, missing funds and broken dreams in her wake
  • Telegram questioned by Ofcom after arsonist who targeted Starmer-linked properties recruited on app
  • In the Hand of Dante review – Gerard Butler is jaw-dropping in bizarre Renaissance mafia reverie
  • The Crunch: Climate refugees, visualising Elon Musk’s wealth, and the many ways to analyse the World Cup
  • California ‘billionaire tax’ makes ballot despite opposition from tech moguls
  • Voicemails for Isabelle review – Netflix romcom picks creepy over cute
  • The Guardian view on OnlyFans: revelations of abusive middlemen merit MPs’ attention
  • Attorney general tells department to stop using X amid UK disinformation concerns
  • ‘Ordinary people are being erased’: one director’s audacious fightback against AI – featuring Frinton
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  • Aardman exhibition marks animation studio’s half a century in Bristol
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  • We must be alive to the dangers of a UK social media ban – and the way to really help young people
  • Girls Like Girls review – Sapphic teen romance is a precious and predictable yawn-a-thon
  • Farage trying to block ‘Britcoin’ plans that could be costly for billionaire donor
  • The best LED face masks in the UK, tested: 11 light therapy devices that are worth the hype
  • ‘It’s where the poetry is written in cinema language’: the female editors behind cinema’s masterpieces
  • Gig workers are endlessly exploited. AI could make more of us share their fate

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