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Financial regulator alleges Musk later acquired shares of company at 'artificially low prices', stiffing shareholdersA US financial regulator has sued Elon Musk for allegedly failing to disclose his ownership of Twitter stock and later acquiring shares in the company at "artificially low prices”, stiffing other shareholders.The Securities and...
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Lawyer for Northern Ireland MP Sorcha Eastwood said posts were made the day after Commons debate on violence against women and girlsA Northern Ireland MP has launched legal action against the self-styled misogynist Andrew Tate and his brother over social media posts made in the past week. A lawyer for Sorcha Eastwood, an MP for the Alliance...
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Richard Osman and Kate Mosse say plan to mine artistic works for data would destroy creative fieldsKate Mosse and Richard Osman have hit back at Labour's plan to give artificial intelligence companies broad freedoms to mine artistic works for data, saying it could destroy growth in creative fields and amount to theft.The best-selling novellists...
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CMA to look at impact on consumers, businesses, advertisers and publishers, as well as collection of dataBusiness live – latest updatesGoogle is being investigated by the UK competition watchdog over the impact of its search and advertising practices on consumers, news publishers, businesses and rival search engines.The tech company accounts for...
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The historian offers a look at the making of modern Britain. Plus, Ella Maisy Purvis is an autistic criminal-evidence cataloguer in Patience. Here's what to watch this evening9pm, BBC TwoMovies that bite back against convention. Paintings that turn the tables. Music that crosses tribal boundaries. "It's the arts that have heralded dramatic changes...
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Media organisations are challenging ruling that they cannot name three judges involved in proceedings relating to 10-year-old who was later murderedA unprecedented ban on naming judges who oversaw proceedings related to the care of Sara Sharif before she was murdered is likely to have a "corrosive impact” on public confidence in the justice...
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A high-budget series set in the Outer Hebrides – it's hard to believe it's taken this long, given how popular subtitled TV is. It's a good, solid series, even if the plot stretches credulityIt is difficult to imagine An t-Eilean being made even 10 years ago. It is billed as the UK's first ever "high-end” Gaelic drama series, which means, I...
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Abuse allegations – which he denies – pile up against the shock rocker in this chilling documentary, not helped by some of the sexual comments he makes about pre-teensRoll up, roll up – fun times are here again, especially for us ladies! Last week we had 2025's first addition to the bulging files of true-crime stories, with the documentary...
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The latest actions of Musk and Zuckerberg are a sign of things to come, but the EU already has the power to give people back controlElon Musk's latest attempts at direct political interference illustrate the grave danger that Europe is facing. He has suggested overthrowing the UK government, asking if "America should liberate the people of Britain...
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Ex-workers say CEO declaring relocation of moderation and safety teams from California just a play for Trump approvalIn a carefully worded statement, Mark Zuckerberg announced last week that Meta was moving its trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California and that the company's content review "is going to be based in Texas”....
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As Meta abandons third-party factchecking in an ostensibly political move, the future of facts elsewhere remains murkyFactcheckers had no doubt about the real audience for the news this week – delivered via Mark Zuckerberg's medium of choice, the awkward video message – that, starting in the US, Meta would abandon professional, third-party...
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Billionaire reposted false claim as Republicans seek to condition disaster aid to Democratic-controlled CaliforniaGavin Newsom has accused the tech billionaire Elon Musk of "encouraging looting” in an escalation of a row over disinformation surrounding the deadly Los Angeles fires.The California governor lashed out after Musk, who is...
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Fadi al-Wahidi's condition is deteriorating, say hospital staff, who do not have medication needed to treat himIt was about 3pm on 9 October when a small group of Al Jazeera journalists arrived at the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza. The team say they were reporting on the displacement of Palestinian families after Israel launched its third...
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The highly emotional new crime drama about the horrific murder case in Sweden that went unsolved for 16 years is a cracking and courageous watch. No wonder it's raced up the Netflix charts …Time is a main character in The Breakthrough, the lean, eloquent Swedish crime drama that recently powered into Netflix's Top 10. It is a fictionalised...
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Victims of 'grooming gangs' have been badly let down, but children must be protected on social media as well as in the real worldTwo seemingly contradictory things are true. It was appalling for the UK's domestic policy agenda to be hijacked last week by Elon Musk's blaze of interest in child sexual exploitation gangs. And government action in...
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More than 15,800 readers gave highest sum raised by annual appeal since 2016 to support victims of war and conflict An amazing £1,735,000 has been raised by Guardian and Observer readers for our charity appeal in support of victims of war and conflict.More than 15,800 readers donated to the appeal, which closed at midnight on Sunday evening. It...
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Can the AI Parky ever beat the real chatshow colossus? As the Virtually Parkinson podcast launches, our writer sits in on a bizarre interview with Monty Don – then ends up in the hot seat himselfAsk anyone who regularly interviews people and they'll tell you that few things are stranger than when the tables turn and you're the one being...
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Amid reports of creation of fake racist images, Signify warns problem will get 'so much worse' over the next yearA rise in online racism driven by fake images is "just the start of a coming problem” after the latest release of X's AI software, online abuse experts have warned.Concerns were raised after computer-generated images created using...
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Sophia Havertz shares 'shocking' message she receivedArsenal ask technology company to identify abusersArsenal are investigating social media posts sent to Kai Havertz's wife amid the club's FA Cup third-round defeat by Manchester United.Havertz missed a penalty in Arsenal's shootout defeat at the Emirates before his wife, Sophia, who is expecting...
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Tributes paid to Italian known for images that drew attention to social themes including HIV/Aids and racismTributes have been paid to Oliviero Toscani, the Italian fashion photographer renowned for the provocative images used in Benetton's advertising campaigns, who has died aged 82.Toscani, who for two decades was the art director of the global...
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The hit Aussie comedy about teenage parents has matured into something relatable, genuinely funny and frequently devastating. It will be missedThe first series of Australian comedy Bump was an indubitably high-concept affair. Mere minutes after we were introduced to uptight, intellectually ferocious, all-round-type-A schoolgirl Oly, her life had...
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Former PM says outlets not focused on important issues such as 'grooming gang scandal' highlighted by Elon MuskUK politics live – latest updatesBusiness live – latest updatesLiz Truss, who has positioned herself as a champion of free speech since her short time in Downing Street, has said the country will fail unless British media outlets such...
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Composer, pianist and musical director on popular TV shows such as Parkinson and Strictly Come DancingIn 1971, when the BBC chat show Parkinson began, its host, Michael Parkinson, asked his friend Laurie Holloway to be the musical director. "I unfortunately had to refuse because I was engaged to be the musical director for Engelbert Humperdinck,”...
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Peter Kyle frustrated with act inherited from Tories and says parliament should legislate faster to protect publicOnline safety legislation is "unsatisfactory” and "uneven”, the science secretary has said as he expressed hopes for parliament to learn to legislate faster on the issue.Peter Kyle said he had given a "very personal commitment to...
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Advertising copywriter who brought 'personality' to products including Cinzano, Shredded Wheat and Parker pensTony Brignull, who has died aged 87 of lymphoma, was an advertising copywriter and creative director whose motto was that a good ad, in print or on screen, must "speak to people”. He was widely regarded as one of the best in the business...
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Television presenter, documentary maker and disability campaigner who focused on a lack of suitable accessible housingRosalie Wilkins, Lady Wilkins, who has died aged 78, was the co-creator and presenter of the first regular television programme on disabled people's lives in the UK. She was also a disability activist, documentary maker and Labour...
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The government has promised a crackdown on synthetic image abuse – but campaigners warn it doesn't go far enoughIt began with an anonymous email. "I'm genuinely so, so sorry to reach out to you,” it read. Beneath the words were three links to an internet forum. "Huge trigger warning … They contain lewd photoshopped images of you.”Jodie (not...
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Ben Stiller and Adam Scott's startling workplace satire finally returns, and the BBC's first prestige drama primarily in Gaelic comes in the form of a murder mystery in the Outer HebridesThe startling workplace satire finally returns for a second season. As we left the Lumon crew, they were temporarily straddling work and leisure worlds, with...
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Ex-Trump adviser denounces tech CEO's embrace of some forms of immigration and vows to 'take this guy down'In an escalation of discontent among the highest-profile far-right followers of Donald Trump, his former adviser Steve Bannon has called Trump's newest favorite, Elon Musk, "racist” and a "truly evil guy”, pledging to "take this guy...
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Analysis shows rise from £89.23 a month to £140.21 between 2019-2020 and 2024-2025 seasonsFootball superfans are paying almost 60% more than they were five years ago to watch the 15 most popular tournaments and leagues, as the number of broadcasters and streaming services required to follow them has increased from four to 10 over the last...
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A damning report shows how local news cuts stymied coverage of the riots in Plymouth. What fills the vacuum? Misinformation On 4 August 2024, the riots and disturbances that followed the killing of three children in Southport, on Merseyside, spread even further. That day, in the midst of a seething mess of far-right misinformation and...
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Legislation to protect children in the digital realm is essential. But if it results in the loss of small cycling and cancer-care forums, something's gone wrongLondon Fixed Gear and Single-Speed (LFGSS) is an admirable online community of fixed-gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London. Sadly, this columnist does not qualify for...
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Olympians serve up a 16-week audio running club, while the Zoolander star unpacks his brilliant brain-scrambler of a show, SeveranceAfter nearly three years, Apple's brain-scrambling epic is back on our screens this week. If you just can't wait (fair enough), director-executive producer Ben Stiller and Adam Scott – who stars as Mark – have...
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Jacob Rees-Mogg and Nigel Farage are among those who have earned large sums from broadcasters, but a tightening of rules on MPs' outside interests is being consideredMPs would no longer be able to rake in huge sums that can see them more than double their parliamentary salaries by signing contracts with media outlets, under plans being...
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As Trump's inauguration looms, the paper, owned by Jeff Bezos, is in shambles – largely of its own makingAs Donald Trump prepares to take office on 20 January, the ascension of a man who has repeatedly said he will persecute the media surely calls for the journalistic muscle of a newspaper that broke the Watergate scandal and has for decades been...
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Washington Post reporter says he never made comments to James Comer published in the congressman's new bookThe Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward forcefully denied making statements attributed to him by James Comer, the Republican chair of the powerful House oversight committee, in which Woodward supposedly said Joe Biden was financially...
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Video posted on social media by reality TV star and her husband showed wedding party with cigarsAn online advert filmed at the wedding of Vicky Pattison and posted on social media by the reality TV star has been banned by the advertising watchdog for "glamorising smoking”.An advert for Endrick Clothing, which is owned by Pattison's husband, Ercan...
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Begum TV beams educational and entertainment shows into homes of women living under strict Taliban ruleFrom a tiny television studio in Paris, 4,500 miles from Kabul, a raft of programmes geared towards women and presented by female hosts beams 24 hours a day into homes across Afghanistan, even as women are being steadily erased from public life in...
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Justices weighed importance of security with freedom of speech in oral arguments that went over nearly an hourHow would a TikTok ban work?The US supreme court heard oral arguments over the fate of TikTok on Friday, questioning TikTok's lawyer far longer than the attorney for the government. It's the latest battle in the long war over whether to ban...
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In 1989, an on-camera head to head triggered the then PM's demise. Harriet Walter, Steve Coogan and James Graham discuss their gripping take on the bombshell broadcastIt was the interview that destroyed Thatcher. Three days after the furious resignation of her chancellor Nigel Lawson in October 1989, she went on TV for a 45-minute interview with an...
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Sarah Silverman and others file court case claiming CEO approved use of dataset despite warningsBusiness live – latest updatesMark Zuckerberg approved Meta's use of "pirated” versions of copyright-protected books to train the company's artificial intelligence models, a group of authors has alleged in a US court filing.Citing internal Meta...
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A similar campaign of rumors and lies was seen after the North Carolina hurricane, with DEI a primary targetAs Los Angeles firefighters battle ongoing blazes, prominent rightwing figures are spreading bigoted criticism of the response and lies about who is to blame, including that the fire is raging because of diversity within the fire...
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This fascinating documentary looks at people who have traded modern life to live on minuscule British islets. Its script might be banal, but their existence is a joy to seeOur Tiny Islands is dangerous television. Ostensibly the gentlest of concepts, this four-part series of hour-long documentaries narrated by Meera Syal is about life on some of...
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House of Guinness is the latest in a long line of TV sagas with a super-rich – albeit dysfunctional – family at its heart. Is it their relatability that keeps us hooked?As any self-respecting zeitgeist-spotter knows, the quickest way to dress up a minor cultural trend as a fully-fledged aesthetic phenomenon is by adding "core” to the end of...
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Media giants had hoped to attract younger viewers who don't subscribe to cable with NBA, NFL and Fifa offeringsDisney, Fox and Warner Bros Discovery on Friday abandoned plans to launch Venu Sports, their live sports joint venture, pulling the plug on a much-heralded effort that ran into substantial legal opposition.Shares of Warner Bros Discovery...
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The clever, idiosyncratic satire of workplace culture returns for a visually stunning second season. But don't expect its mysterious plot to go easy on viewersIn my early 20s, I worked for a pub that was half drinking establishment, half massive children's soft play area. While adult intoxication and parties for under-10s sounds like an odd...
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As factchecking attempts end, Meta's platforms will become a wasteland of fake news and misinformationMark Zuckerberg craves one metric more than any other: engagement, the statistic that tracks how long social media users spend scrolling, clicking, commenting, and viewing ads. More engagement, more profit. The Meta CEO will do almost anything to...
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There is a narrow window. Public media and fair reporting must be supported: the rules must be upheldIn early 2017, Mark Zuckerberg was on what might be termed an "apology tour” of the United States. In the tumultuous few months since Donald Trump won his first presidential victory, the young chief executive of Facebook was reeling from his...
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The company's plan to end its factchecking program is about appeasing Trump. That signals the making of a mafia stateThis week Meta announced the elimination of its factchecking program in the US and rollbacks to content moderation policies on "hateful conduct”. These measures undoubtedly open the floodgates to more hateful, harassing and...
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Sadly, the Amazon-Melania deal has much the same flavor as the rest of Trump appeasement moves – not just by Bezos but by others of his ilkThe language in a New York Times article was extremely restrained as it described Jeff Bezos's evolving stance regarding Donald Trump.The Amazon founder and the president-elect had had a rocky relationship in...
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This live blog is now closed. You can read our latest reporting on the case here:US supreme court seems likely to uphold TikTok ban-or-sale lawHow would a TikTok ban in US work?TikTok maintains it is not controlled by the Chinese government. It's parent company, ByteDance, is based in China, but TikTok operates separately with headquarters in...
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Biden signed a law banning the app in January – if parent firm ByteDance fails to block it, here's what could happenUS supreme court seems likely to uphold TikTok ban-or-sale lawThe US supreme court will hear arguments on Friday from TikTok and its China-based owner ByteDance, which is seeking to block a law signed by Joe Biden that will ban the...
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Like all modern takes on frontier life, this drama focuses on its brutish nature. We've seen it all before – even if it is a gripping yarnAmerican Primeval opens in Utah Territory, 1857. "Wild and untamed,” says the caption, which is good to know. Furthermore, "the United States army, Mormon militia, Native Americans and pioneers are all locked...
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The radio host is stepping down after six years to return to mid-morning broadcastingBBC presenter Lauren Laverne has announced that she will be stepping down as host of Radio 6 Music's breakfast show. After six years of helming the morning show, she will be returning to her previous mid-morning slot.She has not been presenting the show since...
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Populist trolling thrives on the oxygen of publicity. It's on all of us – media and voters – to start looking awayEven more than other forms of politics, populism needs an audience. Populist politicians want to be famous personalities, to make attention-getting claims and promises, to create new national myths. Like other ambitious but less...
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Wayne Rooney's exit was a reminder of how common the fly-on-the-wall club documentary has become. The age of perpetual content is upon us, and it is viciously uninterestingWon't someone think of the streaming platforms? Wayne Rooney's departure from Plymouth Argyle, after seven months and a winless run that left the club bottom of the Championship,...
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The billionaire appears to have a David Brent-like desire to be seen as an entertainer. Please let him get back to conquering MarsWhat, as they say, is Elon Musk's deal? There will be a lot of justifiably righteous commentary about his hijacking of the debate around sexually abused girls in the north of England this week, but why this particular...
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Mark Zuckerberg's move to end factchecking in US reflects president-elect's views on social media, says HaugenMark Zuckerberg has "heard the message” from Donald Trump on restricting online content and his Meta platforms will intervene "less and less” on users during the president-elect's administration, according to the whistleblower Frances...
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Thierry Breton says EU is not trying to censor tech chief's discussion with Alice Weidel of German far-right partyA former EU leader on tech has accused Elon Musk of "lying like hell” by claiming the bloc was trying to stop an interview the owner of X had set up with the co-leader of the German far-right party Alternative für Deutschland.Thierry...
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Scotland Yard imposes Public Order Act owing to proximity of Broadcasting House to a nearby synagogueScotland Yard has banned a pro-Palestine march from gathering outside the BBC's London headquarters next week, owing to its proximity to a synagogue.Protesters were planning to gather outside Broadcasting House in Portland Place on Saturday before...
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Jharrel Jerome and Jennifer Lopez shine in a triumphant biopic of the US wrestler Anthony Robles, plus a youthful new twist on the classic sci-fi sagaIt may largely hew to the sports movie template of underdog triumphing over adversity, but William Goldenberg's biopic of one-legged US wrestler Anthony Robles certainly gets under your skin. Jharrel...
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The comedians eat and drink their way around Málaga. Plus: Brie Larson talks to Graham Norton about her West End show. Here's what to watch this evening8.30pm, Channel 4 Joe Lycett embarks on more European mini-breaks, starting with fellow funnyman David O'Doherty in Málaga. It's food- and booze-heavy, with an itinerary including visits to the...
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Partnership 'a long time coming' and is latest expansion of Australian-made animated seriesThe global hit children's TV show Bluey is to make its Lego debut with the first sets due to hit shelves later this year.The world of Bluey, which has proved such a small-screen hit a film is to be made for global release in 2027, is to be brought to life in...
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Prolific science fiction writer who conceived alternative lives for figures including Emily Dickinson and Sigmund FreudIn 1965, Barry N Malzberg, who has died aged 85, decided that the career he sought as a literary writer was closed to him – the magazines were impenetrable, the control of editors at publishing houses absolute – and that...
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Content creators are easing young people's homesickness with familiar flavours and step-by-step recipesMonica Singh adds whole red chillies, cloves, cardamom, a bay leaf and finely chopped onions to a searing pot of ghee. The base of her coconut chicken curry crackles and sizzles in the pot. The results, spooned over basmati rice, are thick, warm...
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Isaac Steidl charged over site used by criminals including man convicted of recruiting strangers to rape his wifeFrance has charged the founder of an adult website used to commit sexual offences, including by Dominique Pelicot who recruited dozens of strangers to rape his heavily sedated wife, prosecutors said.Italian national Isaac Steidl, the...
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This cultural history of the British people is a vague, subjective take that lurches into the reactionary when it tackles social media. It's a far cry from being a 'major' seriesSimon Schama's new show is, the BBC press blurb says, a "major” series, and it bears a grand and sweeping title, the Story of Us. One always wonders to whom such weighty...
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Politicians criticise Mark Zuckerberg's choice to scrap factcheckers, affecting Facebook, Instagram and ThreadsPermitted 'hateful conduct' – what users can now say on Meta platformsSweeping changes to the policing of Meta's social media platforms have set the tech company on a collision course with legislators in the UK and the European Union,...
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Sala, who had been held since 19 December, greeted by family members and Italian PM at Rome airportCecilia Sala, an Italian journalist who was held in solitary confinement for almost three weeks in Iran, has returned home after being freed from prison.A plane carrying the 29-year-old landed at Rome's Ciampino airport on Wednesday afternoon, where...
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Trump's aides received text messages containing questions and follow-ups before broadcast, according to bookFox News has launched an investigation into claims that an insider leaked questions to Donald Trump's team minutes before a pivotal Iowa town hall last January.According to a new book by the Politico reporter Alex Isenstadt, Trump's aides...
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Loosening already limited safeguards on social media platforms is not just damaging. It could ultimately prove deadlyMark Zuckerberg famously boasted that Facebook had a saying: "Move fast and break things”. His product has not just destroyed industry models but also social mores and expectations of the reliability of information and, in the...
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Will the guest dragon invest in a 'gym in a bag' training kit? Plus, Colin Firth is on a relentless mission in Lockerbie: A Search for Truth. Here's what to watch this evening8pm, BBC OneJoe Wicks may seem far too nice to be cut-throat in business – but this is a self-made man whose fitness empire is worth millions, so maybe he will fit in well...
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The evil brother is back! For the soap's 40th birthday, he'll be leaving his Portuguese villa to wreak havoc in the Square for the first time since 2016. What a brilliant ideaThere are certain headlines that people dream about. "Inflation remains at record low”. "January heatwave on the way for the UK (but don't worry, the climate crisis is...
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It's a mistake to describe the Meta CEO's move as a retreat from 'fact-checking': it's a retreat from limiting harm to usersMark Zuckerberg seems to have gone full Maga. Just two weeks before Donald Trump assumes power over the world's most powerful government, the CEO and founder of the most powerful collection of Internet companies has decided to...
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A preposterous plot and terrible dialogue make for a deeply uninspired detective drama. Its nuance-free take on neurodivergence is embarrassingly clunkyWelcome to your first odd-couple detective drama of 2025. Patience is an adaptation by Matt Baker (Hotel Portofino, Before We Die) of Franco-Belgian creation Astrid et Raphaëlle. It's about the...
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Laura Whateley, author of Money: A User's Guide, offers tips on how to make the most of what you've gotPeople who don't put in the legwork get charged more. Savings accounts often give a better interest rate for the first year, then it drops dramatically, because they want you to just sign up and forget about it. With mobile phones you pay off the...
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Meta's decision relates to just the US so far, but it may affect users in Australia who follow a lot of US-based sourcesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMeta's decision to end factchecking to prioritise "free speech” has prompted alarm among social media experts, as...
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ITV's controversial child-swap thriller Playing Nice has proved too triggering for some viewers. But it's the tip of the iceberg when it comes to television crossing a lineWith controversial ITV baby swap drama Playing Nice, it's becoming increasingly clear that your mileage will vary depending on your stomach for its premise. It revolves around a...
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Maria Ressa warns of 'dangerous times' for journalism and democracy after move to end factchecking in USThe Nobel peace prize winner Maria Ressa has said Meta's decision to end factchecking on its platforms and remove restrictions on certain topics means "extremely dangerous times” lie ahead for journalism, democracy and social media users.The...
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Housing prices fell by 0.1% in December but dip likely to be 'shallow and short-lived', according to CoreLogicFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia's housing downturn is being driven by a widening gap between income, borrowing capacity and home values, but the dip...
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It was the most notorious talkshow in TV history, and this gobsmacking documentary shows that the people who worked on it still have no shame – despite possibly ruining countless livesThere have been so many parodies since that it is strange to go back to the real thing. And even stranger to find that the parodies never got out of the starting...
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Broadcaster and journalist to take control of Piers Morgan Uncensored media brand in joint venturePiers Morgan is leaving Rupert Murdoch's media empire to take control of his Uncensored YouTube channel, three years after signing a multimillion-pound deal focused on leading TalkTV, which shut its traditional TV channel last summer.Morgan and News...
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ASA acts on poster campaign by Wahed, urging people to join a 'money revolution', after receiving 75 complaintsThe UK's advertising watchdog has banned a campaign by an online investment company predominantly targeting Muslims that featured images of euros and US dollars and the words "The United States of America” in flames alongside a call to...
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Patience is Channel 4's crime drama set in beautiful York. Plus: more trouble with Claudia Winkleman in The Traitors. Here's what to watch this evening9pm, Channel 4 Patience (Ella Maisy Purvis) is an autistic woman who works in the criminal records department of Yorkshire police, but whose true talent is in criminology (self-taught since she was...
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From opera singers to granola breakfasts, the reality TV smash hit sometimes feels like a Middle Englander's fever dream. It's only a matter of time before a task involves a dressage roundOut of the mouth of babes. Aged 20, Freddie Fraser might be the youngest player in The Traitors but he spoke an awkward truth about the hit BBC gameshow on the...
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Pioneering director of commercials for ITV who introduced Arthur, the Kattomeat cat, and Captain Birds EyeWhen ITV was launched in 1955, many people seized the opportunity to make programmes for the new television channel. But Roger Lambert, who has died aged 96, was a visionary director who saw the potential for a whole new industry in Britain –...
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UK party takes post down after viewers point out misogynist Portuguese-language lyricsWarning: this article contains language that people may find offensiveThe Labour party has apologised for using a soundtrack with "completely inappropriate” lyrics in a promotional TikTok video.The video features AI-generated animals including a hare dressed as...
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The social media giant enters a more partisan political era as its CEO pursues Donald Trump's approvalMeta is shifting to the right, following the prevailing political winds blowing through the United States. A more partisan era now looms for the social media giant and its corporate leaders, though Mark Zuckerberg himself has few personal politics...
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Comments by Bruno Retailleau, who is known for his hardline views, comes as country marks decade since attack that killed 12 peopleThe threat of a terrorist attack on France is being fuelled by social media and has never been greater, the country's interior minister has said, 10 years after gunmen killed 12 people in an attack on the Charlie Hebdo...
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'Cuts will be deep', media reporter writes, after paper faced scrutiny for halting endorsement of Harris in OctoberDozens of employees are expected to be laid off at the Washington Post in the coming week in what is another of several tumultuous episodes in recent months for the storied title, according to a report by the media reporter Oliver...
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PM also criticises politicians 'jumping on the bandwagon' amid row over action on child sexual exploitationKeir Starmer has condemned Elon Musk's increasingly erratic attacks on the government, suggesting his "lies and misinformation” on grooming gangs were amplifying the "poison” of the far right.The prime minister angrily criticised...
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Magistrate remands Kyle Shaw of Birkenhead on bail ahead of appearance in Liverpool crown courtA man has been charged with stalking the Strictly Come Dancing judge Shirley Ballas.Kyle Shaw, 37, appeared at South Sefton magistrates court, Merseyside, on 3 January, the courts service confirmed. Continue reading...
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The UK prime minister calls out the reckless amplification of conspiracy theories by the world's richest man on child sexual abuse. GoodOn Monday, Sir Keir Starmer rightly defended robust debate but insisted it "must be grounded in facts, not lies”, in response to Elon Musk's falsehoods about his role in dealing with child sexual exploitation....
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Proposed space launches within next two years could ultimately deliver mobile phone signal even to most remote areasAmazon is hoping to offer a satellite broadband service in the UK within the next two years as it prepares to launch a constellation of spacecraft that could ultimately deliver a mobile signal even to the most remote areas.The tech...
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While her family roast their own turkeys, bitter Emma calls a halt to festivities, what with her son being banged up. Then Joy's mystery daughter arrives, fresh from a … cult?The wheel of fortune has turned. This Christmas, the Aldridges – finally on an even keel after Alice was exonerated from involvement in the fateful car crash on the Am –...
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Dismally grim and exploitative, this series about a murderer who posted online reviews of the tools he used to carry out his crimes is just the kind of television to avoid like the plagueRight, you 'orrible lot. That's quite enough seasonal goodwill for you. Time to get back to business. Your first new true-crime documentary of the year is here:...
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Musk has now used X as a platform to make aggressive interventions in US politics – and in those of other countriesAs a business proposition, Elon Musk's ownership of X, formerly known as Twitter, has so far been a disaster: since he acquired it in late 2022, the social media company, according to one estimate, has lost nearly 80% of its value.As...
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'The left-hand driving glove was madness – while the baby dream machine and the armchair that converted into a gym for older people made me laugh'I was running a fairly successful telecoms business and had a phone call from the BBC saying that they'd like to come and chat. I was intrigued enough to say yes. I was late for our meeting and while he...
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