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Can the TikTok short video model work when nearly everyone involved is a bot?
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Can the TikTok short video model work when nearly everyone involved is a bot?
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In Careless People, former employee Sarah Wynn-Williams reveals the callousness at the heart of the company.
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Plus: Dominic Cummings cosies up to Elon Musk, and a reboot at the Beeb.
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Social media platforms have enjoyed a long, lucrative period of under-regulation. With Trump in the White House, they want to…
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Plus: Apple’s fluffed AI headlines and more Telegraph sale intrigue.
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Mark Zuckerberg is replacing Nick Clegg with a Republican.
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The plan to swamp Facebook with non-human accounts will change social media forever.
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Like the metaverse before it, this new “innovation” could only appeal to someone as detached from reality as a tech…
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We are prisoners of a global online panopticon that knows more about us than we do.
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The embarrassing rise of the “anti-woke” alpha male shows how a crisis of masculinity makes one seek to aggressively perform…
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Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s cage fight is a neo-feudal nightmare.
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Mark Zuckerberg appears to be quietly killing off his pet project, at the expense of billions of dollars. Why are…
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Policymakers and experts on their policy highlight – or lowlight – of the year.
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This year saw the great humbling of the Silicon Valley billionaire – from Elon Musk to Mark Zuckerberg.
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The party has called for the scope of the Online Safety Bill to be expanded as it returns to parliament.
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The departure of senior executives and a major round of redundancies raise questions about the company’s future.
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Our culture is increasingly consumed by the whims of tech billionaires funnelling absurd amounts of cash into projects no one…
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Mark Zuckerberg’s latest iteration of his virtual world has been derided as aesthetically primitive – but is that the point?
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Neighbourhoods depend on people looking out for each other, but the growth of virtual worlds threatens to undermine public oversight…
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The “metaverse” epitomises Big Tech’s focus on masturbatory ego projects rather than social goods.
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