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Facebook’s plan to break the global financial system

The tech giant knows its best weapon is mobilizing the faux-populism other Silicon Valley companies have used to defeat regulation

Facebook co-founder: Libra currency could give firms excess power

Chris Hughes says involvement of private companies is threat to autonomy of nation states

Facebook reverses ban on Led Zeppelin album cover featuring naked children

Social network acknowledges ‘culturally significant image’ amid protests against its nudity policy

Facebook usage falling after privacy scandals, data suggests

Actions such as likes and shares down nearly 20%, though user numbers still growing

Why has Facebook coined their new cryptocurrency Libra?

Cryptocurrency is a new word with ancient roots – and Libra is just the latest to enter the digital money market

Facebook cryptocurrency: dawn of the corporation-government

If it gets the green light from regulators, Facebook is on its way to creating its own currency – a prospect that should alarm us

Game streaming site Twitch buys social network Bebo

Amazon-owned streaming platform reportedly bought once-popular Bebo for $25m

Is Facebook’s Libra currency a case of corporate megalomania?

The planned cryptocurrency has big questions to answer, not least on transparency and trust

What is Libra? All you need to know about Facebook’s new cryptocurrency

Facebook claims it wants to reach people without access to a bank account, and that Libra is the best way

Libra: Facebook launches cryptocurrency in bid to shake up global finance

Digital currency will let billions of users make transactions, but is already facing opposition from US lawmakers amid privacy concerns

Facebook’s Libra launch will extend its global domination

Cryptocurrency could wipe out many businesses and further concentrate corporate power

Crypto is coming: get ready to spend Facebook’s money

The social network is likely to release details of its cryptocurrency this week: and it won’t be much like Bitcoin

Let’s get real before deepfake videos corrupt our democracy

As Mark Zuckerberg has discovered, you can make anyone say anything, says Guardian columnist Hannah Jane Parkinson

Pro-Kremlin media ‘spread false claims that EU has Nazi roots’

Security commissioner reveals disinformation acts aimed at influencing EU elections

Facebook emails seem to show Zuckerberg knew of privacy issues, report claims

Firm has uncovered emails that appear to show chief executive’s connection to potentially problematic practices, WSJ reports

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  • The best LED face masks in the UK, tested: 11 light therapy devices that are worth the hype
  • Angry and lonely after my marriage ended, I came dangerously close to embracing the manosphere
  • Tesla drivers crash into swimming pool and home in separate US incidents
  • Once Upon a Time in Holyhead: Quentin Tarantino and Kylie Minogue shooting film in Porthcawl
  • AI models that can take down governments and business months away, rare Five Eyes statement warns
  • Pitfall review – big-hole survival horror is as if cast of Friends strayed into Deliverance
  • Jabs, human ash and a tapeworm: behind the appetite for a new kind of disordered eating movie
  • Benita review – Alan Berliner puts new spin on late film-maker’s work in entrancing tribute
  • ‘Sheer outrageousness’: writers on their favourite LGBTQ+ movie characters
  • Shadows of Willow Cabin review – secrets fester beneath horny hookup in low budget horror
  • The Fabulous Gold Harvesting Machine review – scavenger’s story reveals a rich seam to mine
  • The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow review – the real price of artificial intelligence
  • Thirsty and power hungry: Australia is in the middle of a datacentre boom – but are they good for the economy?
  • Superfood or sweet treat? 17 delicious ways with popcorn – from snack bars and choux buns to salads and soups
  • Condemned to plutocracy? The relentless rise of US inequality
  • Brands using AI-generated influencers to promote products on social media
  • Suppliers unable to chase fees after film producer’s 50 companies are struck off
  • To the tablet and beyond: does Toy Story 5 go hard enough on technology?
  • Texas environmentalists lose bid to block Musk’s SpaceX from closing beach
  • ‘Once my tummy stopped shaking, I was absorbed by the scale, spectacle and wonder’: your Steven Spielberg film favourites
  • Key Trump allies and Musk on leaked list for secretive Peter Thiel retreat
  • ‘How do I deal with my rage? I put it in everything I do’: Killing Eve’s Sandra Oh on fury, friendship and hitting her prime in midlife
  • Social media bans are trending. But it’s too late for my son and me
  • Skeleton of the world’s rarest marine mammal preserved by digital imaging
  • A viral doomsday scenario aims to shake Europe out of its AI complacency
  • Granta stops publishing short story award winners over AI controversy
  • From Toy Story 5 to The Bear: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead
  • I dived into my digital past to revisit my most cringe teenage moments – and realised how lucky I am to not be young and online today
  • Can we electrify the world? Ambition moves from nerdish backwater to centre stage

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