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Don’t post on Facebook unless you are prepared to face the consequences

Facebook’s advertising software is beautifully engineered but it often produces ugly results

Will Zuckerberg dump Trump, or continue to serve him?

The co-dependency between Facebook and the White House cannot be papered over by the company’s empty promises to improve

The background to EU citizens’ court win over US tech giants

Data privacy rights have been backed by a new ruling, the latest twist in a nine-year campaign to limit surveillance by US agencies

Congress has the legal power to investigate Silicon Valley. Let’s make it count

Lawmakers are about to undertake their first major antitrust hearing in 50 years. They should make tech companies squirm

Bella Hadid’s deleted Instagram post shows how Palestinians are silenced

The model posted a picture of her father’s passport only for it to be removed. Sometimes asserting your humanity as a Palestinian is portrayed as an act of aggression, says Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi

Hancock: anti-vaccine myths on Facebook ‘put lives at risk’

UK health secretary to meet Nick Clegg to discuss further action to tackle anti-vaccination propaganda

Let a jury decide what content should appear on social media

As we can’t trust the bosses of the digital giants, why not ask ordinary people to evaluate ads?

‘Too big to fail’: why even a historic ad boycott won’t change Facebook

The company has survived previous seemingly existential crises with little damage to its monarchical structure

Facebook removes pages linked to Roger Stone and Jair Bolsonaro

Company says fake accounts promoted Trump ally’s books while material tied to Bolsonaro spread divisive messages

Facebook decisions led to serious setbacks for civil rights – report

Two-year audit praises some decisions but was criticises lack of action over Trump posts

‘Disappointing’ Zuckerberg meeting fails to yield results, say Facebook boycott organizers

Civil rights groups say company did not commit to concrete plan to address hate speech and misinformation

Nearly one in six Britons would refuse Covid-19 vaccine – survey

Campaigners say social media firms behaving irresponsibly over anti-vaccine material

Extend US Facebook boycott to Europe, campaigners urge

Calls follow Mark Zuckerberg’s dismissal of anti-hate-speech campaign in meeting with staff

New Zealand’s Stuff newspaper group joins Facebook boycott as ‘experiment’

Company says it has ‘paused’ its relationship with the social media company as part of global movement against hate speech

The Guardian view on Facebook and democracy: real and present danger

Editorial: Political advertising is banned from being broadcast on television or radio. Unless Facebook changes, it may be time to extend this prohibition to social media

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  • The Guardian view on John Williams and Steven Spielberg: a partnership that changed cinema
  • The Rev Michael Humphreys obituary
  • 45 Years review – Gabriel Byrne and Geraldine James mark an anniversary for the ages
  • How Refugee Week film festival brings migrants’ experience home
  • The best 4K wireless TV streamers for more choice – with no aerial required
  • 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
  • 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
  • Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s new film shines a light on the human cost of unregulated social media
  • 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
  • Post your questions for Minions supremo Pierre Coffin
  • 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

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