The big idea: do we worry too much about misinformation?
Seeing falsehoods everywhere is as damaging as believing too much. Our focus should be on helping people interpret information better
Social media platforms face huge fines under UK’s new digital safety laws
Platforms must safeguard against content such as terrorist and child sexual abuse material under Online Safety Act
Russell T Davies: gay society in ‘greatest danger I’ve ever seen’ after Trump win
Exclusive: Doctor Who writer says he feels ‘a wave of anger heading towards us’ and hostility in UK as well as US
Many young people find safety in the soothing world of ASMR videos – imagine if we could give them that in the real world
ASMR videos can mimic the feeling of physical touch, which a study has found is popular with young consumers. But how many intimate gestures of love, care and connection are they missing out on, asks Emma Beddington
The week in audio: Where Politics Meets History; Down the Caff; Archive on 4: No Blacks No Irish – review
LBC’s Iain Dale and historian Tessa Dunlop tackle Very Important Topics. Plus, deliciously chaotic fun at a much-loved East End cafe, and a vital but uncomfortable retelling of recent racism in Britain
‘It’s controversial and polarising’: is Disney’s new Snow White a poisoned apple?
The studio’s latest remake may need more than a magic kiss to survive its entanglements with politics, sexism and CGI dwarf trouble
Free online virtual reality tool helps people tackle public speaking nerves
Cambridge scientist behind VR platform says it could help those put off by high cost of speech anxiety treatment
UK politics: Unison attacks ‘shambolic’ announcement of NHS England’s abolition – as it happened
Union says staff will have been left reeling after surprise news that body will be scrapped
Parents should stop children gaming on Roblox if they are worried, says CEO
David Baszucki says company is vigilant about protecting users amid reports of bullying and grooming on platform
Campaign to bar under-14s from having smartphones signed by 100,000 parents
Surrey was region of UK with most sign-ups for Smartphone Free Childhood’s parent pact, launched last year
OpenAI’s metafictional short story about grief is beautiful and moving
I think of AI as alternative intelligence – and its capacity to be ‘other’ is just what the human race needs
‘Carers need care, too’: Bruce Willis’s wife speaks out after deaths of Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa
Emma Heming Willis, who is primary carer for the actor since his dementia diagnosis in 2023, says there is ‘a broader story’ to tell about their plight
The Rule of Jenny Pen review – John Lithgow pulls the strings in care home horror
Geoffrey Rush’s retired judge is terrorised by Lithgow’s therapy puppet-wielding fellow resident in this claustrophobic tale of elder-on-elder abuse
Stalked: how a relentless campaign of online abuse derailed one woman’s life
A new BBC podcast recounts the ordeal endured by Hannah Mossman Moore, whose phone was bombarded by fake accounts and her personal data weaponised against her
Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome: the infection that killed Betsy Arakawa, Gene Hackman’s wife
Virus that caused death of actor’s wife in Santa Fe is rare but serious illness that can damage major organs of the body