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Revealed: the names linked to ClothOff, the deepfake pornography app

Exclusive: Guardian investigation for podcast series Black Box reveals names connected to app that generated non-consensual images of children around the world

Feel Me review – innovative show puts audience empathy to the test

The Paper Birds’ new touring production explores forced displacement through physical theatre, interactivity and multimedia

Child-on-child abuse is increasing in the UK, but criminalising young people will only do more damage

Children must feel empowered to say no when they feel under pressure from others, says Linda Papadopoulos, a psychologist, broadcaster and author

Actor Judith Godrèche urges French film industry to face up to sexual abuse

Star tells audience at prestigious César awards that they need to challenge powerful and abusive men whatever the career risk

Online slot machine stakes to be capped at £5 in Great Britain

Maximum will be £2 for younger adults but campaigners say government has not gone far enough

Digital slot machine limit of £2 set to cost gambling operators in UK millions

Exclusive: Low maximum stake, set to be announced on Friday, will apply to players under 25, the Guardian understands

YouTuber Ruby Franke’s chilling story shows us that internet culture has given child abuse a new place to hide

The most disturbing thing about the prolific parenting vlogger was that she was peddling cruelty worldwide in plain sight, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

‘Indescribably filthy’: historian Emily Cockayne on the letters that landed her a film deal

As Wicked Little Letters with Olivia Colman hits cinemas, the associate professor who unearthed the real-life case explains how petty grievances and prejudices got out of hand in 1920s Sussex

A Wolfpack Called Ernesto review – disturbing tales of children groomed by Mexico drug gangs

Men and women involved in narcotrafficking explain how they were recruited in this compelling documentary

Drones could deliver medical supplies under UK travel watchdog plans

CAA proposes allowing operators to fly drones at low heights beyond the line of sight

Here’s to hanging out with friends, a splendidly pointless pastime we’re at risk of losing

The social pressure to go out is off, but has it been replaced by scrolling alone in our bedrooms?

A Different Man review – Adam Pearson shines in oddball Doppelganger parable

The Under the Skin actor is a standout in a story starring Sebastian Stan as a man whose appearance is transformed by surgery

‘Toxic’ online culture fuelling rise in sexual assaults on children by other children, police warn

Observer investigation in England and Wales reveals 40% increase in reports of sexual assaults and rapes where both victim and perpetrator were under 18

‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood

Local WhatsApp group started by two mothers concerned about online safety attracts more than 4,000 members

Learn this from the Rochdale debacle: society faces peril when smart people believe dumb things

Azhar Ali’s parroting of anti-Israel conspiracy theories is not a warning just for Labour – there’s a lesson in it for everyone, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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  • How Refugee Week film festival brings migrants’ experience home
  • Avatar: Fire and Ash to Project Hail Mary – the seven best films to watch on TV this week
  • You can handle the truth! Why cinema suddenly loves conspiracy theories
  • On the trail of the dotcom queen: how Julie Meyer left a pattern of unpaid bills, missing funds and broken dreams in her wake
  • Telegram questioned by Ofcom after arsonist who targeted Starmer-linked properties recruited on app
  • In the Hand of Dante review – Gerard Butler is jaw-dropping in bizarre Renaissance mafia reverie
  • The Crunch: Climate refugees, visualising Elon Musk’s wealth, and the many ways to analyse the World Cup
  • California ‘billionaire tax’ makes ballot despite opposition from tech moguls
  • Voicemails for Isabelle review – Netflix romcom picks creepy over cute
  • The Guardian view on OnlyFans: revelations of abusive middlemen merit MPs’ attention
  • Attorney general tells department to stop using X amid UK disinformation concerns
  • ‘Ordinary people are being erased’: one director’s audacious fightback against AI – featuring Frinton
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  • Aardman exhibition marks animation studio’s half a century in Bristol
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  • We must be alive to the dangers of a UK social media ban – and the way to really help young people
  • Girls Like Girls review – Sapphic teen romance is a precious and predictable yawn-a-thon
  • Farage trying to block ‘Britcoin’ plans that could be costly for billionaire donor
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  • ‘It’s where the poetry is written in cinema language’: the female editors behind cinema’s masterpieces
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  • ‘The masturbation scene wasn’t a big deal’: Théodore Pellerin on tackling his new film Nino’s challenges
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  • Inspired by Ukraine, and worried by China: Taiwan teaches its citizens how to fly drones
  • Daveigh Chase, child star known for Lilo & Stitch and The Ring, dies aged 35

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