Doomscrolling on Vibes, Meta’s new AI slop feed
Can the TikTok short video model work when nearly everyone involved is a bot?
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Big Tech is the only winner of the Online Safety Act
Mainstream platforms are consolidating their power as niche sites are forced to close.
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Inside the ugly world of Facebook
In Careless People, former employee Sarah Wynn-Williams reveals the callousness at the heart of the company.
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The NS Poem: Facebook Marketplace
A new poem by Andrew McMillan.
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Christine Rosen: “If you give people an easy path, they will take it”
The American academic on how tech is changing our capacity for experience.
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Daily Mail redundancies are being watched by Fleet Street with horror
Also this week: a conspiracy theorist at the FBI, and Meta’s free-speech wobble.
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Why Mark ZuckerBro turned Meta Maga
Plus: Dominic Cummings cosies up to Elon Musk, and a reboot at the Beeb.
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Has Facebook fallen in behind Trump?
Mark Zuckerberg is replacing Nick Clegg with a Republican.
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Mark Zuckerberg’s fake internet empire
The plan to swamp Facebook with non-human accounts will change social media forever.
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We must break up the tech platforms that threaten our democracy
We are prisoners of a global online panopticon that knows more about us than we do.
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Are governments finally pushing back against Big Tech?
Lawsuits filed against Meta by more than 40 US states are the first of their kind against a social media…
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Big Tech can’t erase politics from social media
To become a permanent alternative to Twitter, Threads will need to embrace politics.
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Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen: “I wouldn’t wish Mark Zuckerberg’s life on anyone”
In 2021 she shone a light on misinformation and online harm. Now she’s “extremely worried” about Big Tech’s impact on…
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“There are thousands of Andrew Tates out there”: The battle against online extremism
Counterextremism expert Milo Comerford on what Isis can teach us about the spread of radical misogyny.
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The death of the Metaverse
Mark Zuckerberg appears to be quietly killing off his pet project, at the expense of billions of dollars. Why are…
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There is no chance the government will regulate AI
This government is planning light-touch regulation of a technology our politicians do not understand.
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Social media is taking a dangerous toll on teenage girls
The evidence is now clear: smartphones are the major cause of the mental illness epidemic among young women.
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Elon Musk’s journalist ban will invite politicians to intervene
Silencing the free press crosses a line.
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Labour: Social media bosses should be held criminally liable for harmful content
The party has called for the scope of the Online Safety Bill to be expanded as it returns to parliament.
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Inside the Twittering machine
Will Elon Musk turn Twitter from a dysfunctional social media platform into a new kind of digital dystopia?
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