Why is Labour so unpopular? Just look at the dithering over kids’ screen time

Keir Starmer is running out of patience with the social media platforms, after Meta and Google’s landmark legal defeat in Los Angeles. But this ‘strongest intervention yet’ comes years too late, writes Zoe Williams

Apple subsidiary fined by UK government over Moscow sanctions breach

Apple Distribution International, based in Ireland, made payments worth £690,000 to a Russian streaming service

‘Double standards’: Instagram removes Erin O’Connor’s pregnancy photos again

Model posted pictures of herself naked and ‘in her full power’ to celebrate Mother’s Day, before Meta took them down for breaching nudity guidelines

Keir Starmer says UK will ‘have to act’ to curb addictive features of social media

In his strongest intervention yet, PM says some features ‘shouldn’t be permitted’, while education secretary says things ‘are going to change’

‘Soon publishers won’t stand a chance’: literary world in struggle to detect AI-written books

US release of horror novel Shy Girl cancelled and UK book discontinued after suspected AI use, as publishers feel ‘cold shiver’

‘Our assumptions are broken’: how fraudulent church data revealed AI’s threat to polling

Experts say paid participants are using automated tools to generate unreliable survey responses at scale

What does new guidance in the UK say about screen time for children?

Experts recommend extremely limited use for children under-two amid ‘mounting evidence’ of harmful impact

Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says

Exclusive: Research finds sharp rise in models evading safeguards and destroying emails without permission

Almost half a million Lloyds customers had personal data exposed in IT glitch

Letter from group published by MPs blames 12 March glitch on software update to its mobile banking apps

Starmer vows to ‘fight’ social media firms to protect children from addiction

Prime minister says government needs to show it is on families’ side as new screen-time guidance launched

Labour under pressure to appoint Tory ex-minister as next Ofcom chair

Liz Kendall urged by online safety figures to give job to Jeremy Wright ahead of Labour peer Margaret Hodge

I was paid to write fake Google reviews – then my ‘bosses’ tried to scam me

Undercover reporter gets a taste of the sprawling fraud industry in which cryptocurrencies play a crucial role

Keep under-fives’ screen time to no more than an hour a day, UK advice says

Keir Starmer promises to help parents limit children’s online activity as government issues guidance to families

New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK

The decision follows activist pressure as Palantir faces growing scrutiny over NHS and UK government deals

UK politics: Trump says UK’s aircraft carriers are just ‘toys’ – as it happened

The comments were part of a broader address in which he condemned Nato allies