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Is Facebook a publisher? In public it says no, but in court it says yes

In its defense against a former app startup, Facebook is contradicting its long-held claim to be simply a neutral platform

Facebook reveals it gave 61 companies access to widely blocked user data

Company tells Congress it provided Nike, Spotify, a dating app and other services with special rights to information

Facebook patents system that can use your phone’s mic to monitor TV habits

System would allow Facebook to identify what adults and children are watching based on ambient noise

Facebook scraps plans to build drone to deliver internet access

Facebook will not build its own aircraft due to aerospace companies’ competition

UK democracy under threat and need for reform is urgent, says regulator

Electoral Commission asks government to change law after series of online political campaign scandals

Anti-Social Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy by Siva Vaidhyanathan – review

An excellent critique of the social media giant underlines the threat it poses to us all – and suggests how it can be tamed

Facebook’s Grow magazine – for the business leader who wants to be cool as well as rich

The semi-evil social network has launched its latest venture, a lifestyle magazine for the elite. Just don’t call it a publisher ...

Facebook creates Orwellian headache as news is labelled politics

Archive of political content becomes battleground between publishers and platforms

‘Facebook is taking everything’: rising rents drive out Silicon Valley families

Property companies advertising their proximity to Facebook’s campus are giving low-income residents a choice: pay a huge rent increase or move out

Facebook campaign to help separated children seeks $1,500 but gets $7.5m

Texas-based campaign to provide legal advice to families becomes Facebook’s largest ever single fundraiser

Cambridge Analytica-linked academic spurns idea Facebook swayed election

Aleksandr Kogan, who harvested Facebook profiles, dismisses idea as ‘science fiction’ during Senate hearing

‘Tone deaf!’: state department offers poorly-timed tips on traveling with kids

Amid outrage over family separations, state department hosted #FamilyTravelHacks on Facebook Live

Facebook and Twitter: we can do more to protect disabled people

MPs question social media giants following criticism from Katie Price over abuse of son

Could this be the end of Facebook controlling news?

Two reports show signs of a shift in the wake of electoral and data misuse scandals

‘It’s a misperception that we track people when the Strava app is not open’

James Quarles, head of social network Strava, responds to issues surrounding his company’s fitness tracking app

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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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