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Zuckerberg now runs not a business but an empire. It’s time to strike back

Anti-monopoly law has not kept abreast of social networks, leaving Facebook free to suck up any rivals

The exit of Instagram’s founders shows Zuckerberg’s rule is absolute

Facebook will always data-mine its users for the benefit of advertisers, whatever the lofty principles of the apps it buys

Facebook says nearly 50m users compromised in huge security breach

Attack gave hackers ability to take over accounts in what is believed to be largest breach in Facebook’s history

Poor Mr Anus, the council candidate given a bum deal by Facebook

A local election candidate in Belgium has been forced to change his name by the social network on the grounds that it is ‘offensive and inappropriate’. The cheek of it!

Instagram founders quit amid suspected clash with Zuckerberg

Tension with Facebook may have prompted Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger to leave

UK newspaper industry demands levy on tech firms

News Media Association says Google and Facebook should fund the journalism from which they profit

Labour vows to rein in academies and scrap free schools

Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner to reveal plan to axe free schools in proposed education reforms

Follow the money: how News Corp wields power to defend its interests

In the third part of our series, we examine how Rupert Murdoch’s primary interest in politicians is not always political but often commercial

EU warns Facebook it faces sanctions over ‘misleading’ T&Cs

Commission gives social media company until end of the year to change its terms of service

Campaigners begin action against male-targeted job ads on Facebook

Workers claim that Facebook provides job ads which allows employers to choose who they want based on their age and sex

Ofcom to push for regulation of social networks

Media regulator’s chief seeks action to prevent online harm

Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed By Tech – review

In an age where our every action can be harvested as data and used against us, Jamie Susskind’s book makes crucial reading

Remove terror content or be fined millions, EU tells social media firms

Non-compliance penalty could be up to 4% of global revenue, says European commission

What’s behind Mark Zuckerberg’s man-crush on Emperor Augustus?

The Facebook founder’s bromantic hero was a canny operator who was obsessed with power and overrode democracy

‘Nicole From Last Night’: how one man’s quest for love led to a surprising sisterhood

A Canadian student, who got a wrong number from a ‘Nicole’ he met in a pub, emailed 247 of her campus namesakes – a Facebook group and a very unusual modern love story ensued

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  • Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham have met away from No 10 to discuss transition – UK politics live
  • Quantum of Solace: a heartbroken James Bond is fuelled by rage in Daniel Craig’s most underrated 007 film
  • US AI stock sell-off shakes markets from Wall Street to Asia
  • You’re only supposed to blow the bloody hooves off: AI Michael Caine narrates Odyssey audiobook
  • Will California’s billionaire tax proposal make it to ballots?
  • AI in the classroom prompts tide of concern from US parents and experts
  • How to Live on Earth review – Benedict Cumberbatch exudes positivity in response to the climate crisis
  • Majority of datacenters are vulnerable to climate threats like floods and fires, study finds
  • Australia ‘sleepwalking’ into AI crisis and ‘tech bro free-for-all’, says Greens senator
  • Sizzle reels: nine films to watch in a heatwave
  • ‘I’ve had a huge life, so I needed a big budget’: Madonna says biopic was scrapped after ‘falling out’ with studio
  • 500 Miles review – kids hit the road to visit Irish grandad Bill Nighy in YA tearjerker
  • ‘Climate change is a form of oppression’: the voices affected most by environmental crisis
  • The Morrigan review – spirit of pagan demon queen unleashed in Irish burial chamber horror
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  • Landship review – soldiers yearn for tinned meat in muddy first world war drama that stays inside the tank
  • Self-doubt, burnout … and Taylor Swift: why Toy Story 5 is the ultimate millennial girl movie
  • Lost memoir of Hiroshima survivor found after decades in US archive
  • Met to expand use of live facial recognition into central London by Christmas
  • UK plans to give established media more visibility on YouTube and TikTok
  • HR consultant wins English court case using AI lawyer in apparent legal first
  • Two Britons plead guilty to £39m 2024 cyber-attack on Transport for London
  • 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 capable of devastating attacks on 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

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