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The panic over Facebook’s stock is absurd. It’s simply too big to fail

Despite some critics’ glee at the latest earnings report, the planet’s most powerful business remains unstoppable

Does Facebook’s plummeting stock spell disaster for the social network?

The company lost $118bn in market value after news of slowed growth and rising costs. But is it more than a blip?

Over $119bn wiped off Facebook’s market cap after growth shock

Shares crash as social network admits user growth fell after Cambridge Analytica breach

Facebook’s China venture fails as record of approval for innovation hub vanishes

Mark Zuckerberg may have fallen foul of power struggles between internet regulators and other authorities

Facebook stocks plummet more than 20% amid concerns over growth

Company warns of slowing revenue growth as it invests in security – but it still makes $13.2bn

Facebook’s free food banned as Silicon Valley restaurants hit back

Tech firms are known for their lavish meals, but city says it damages local businesses

A year after Charlottesville, why can’t big tech delete white supremacists?

Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and more pledged to take action against hate groups. Why isn’t it working?

Barefaced cheek: Rubens nudes fall foul of Facebook censors

Flanders tourist board chides firm for removing ads featuring the Flemish master’s works

Ctrl Alt Delete: How Politics and the Media Crashed Our Democracy – review

Tom Baldwin’s account of the abusive relationship with the truth in media and politics is lucid, punchy and often funny

Good results offer the tech giants a chance to change the subject

After a torrid period for Silicon Valley’s reputation, strong financial news may help improve investors’ mood

The Observer view on the threat to British democracy

Parliament’s authority is being undermined – from the misuse of voters’ data to broken promises on paired voting

Facebook suspends another analytics firm amid questions over surveillance

Crimson Hexagon suspended as concerns surface over company’s federal contracts and ties to Russia and Turkey

WhatsApp to restrict message forwarding after India mob lynchings

Facebook-owned messaging service wants to crack down on viral spread of hateful misinformation

Facebook’s plan to kill dangerous fake news is ambitious – and perhaps impossible

New policy to tackle content that could fuel violence may be well-meaning, but the complexity of the task is mind-boggling

Zuckerberg defends Facebook users’ right to be wrong – even Holocaust deniers

CEO explains decision not to censor conspiracy theories but says the platform will try to ‘reduce distribution of content’

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  • Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham have met away from No 10 to discuss transition – as it happened
  • 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
  • Rory Kennedy revisits Boeing in new film sparked by whistleblower’s death: ‘We’ve got to stay at this’
  • 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

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