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  • Giggle for Girls founder Sall Grover outside the federal court

    Giggle for Girls founder appeals finding that app discriminated against transgender woman

  • An Arab woman with her head uncovered walking down a street in a T-shirt and dungarees while listening to earphones

    Rights and freedom
    Saudi fitness instructor stabbed in face while jailed over women’s rights posts

  • ‘I tried weightlifting, running, boxing, pilates. Every time I went, I shared my little Garmin chart on my Insta stories. Occasionally, a reply guy did a fire react. I was proud.’

    I’ve joined the ranks of people who track their exercise milestones on social media. Don’t hate me

    Anna Spargo-Ryan
    As an uncoordinated sweat monster, I never imagined sharing my progress with an online community would boost my sense of purpose and wellbeing so immensely
  • A collage of photographs of nature and attractions

    Dump, post, repeat: how Instagram became a social media junkyard

    Our photo dumps used to be an aesthetic disruption. Now we’re just bending to the app’s will
  • A collage illustration of a human face and newspaper clippings to represent the challenge of tackling  fake news.

    TechScape newsletter
    TechScape: Why the fake news confidence trap could be your downfall

    As the Goodbye Meta AI meme proved, many of us vastly overestimate our abilities to discern what’s true online – but spotting misinformation isn’t something we can do alone
  • A police car is set on fire by far-right activists in Sunderland on 2 August 2024

    The Guardian view on this summer’s riots: courts can’t solve these problems alone

    Editorial: The UK’s counter-extremism strategy isn’t working – and prison sentences won’t change that
  • Close-up of woman touching red light therapy panel LEDs with hand

    Red light therapy is trendy, but does it work? The biggest wellness trends of 2024

    Do you need to take magnesium? Are you boysober? What’s underconsumption core? We’re here to help
    • Guns and lies
      Mass shootings upended their lives. Now survivors are making the gun industry pay

    • Man falsely accused of murder by Tommy Robinson calls for tighter rules on X

    • ‘I need to own my narrative’: man cleared of racist murder in 1995 on years of abuse

  • Phone showing WhatsApp messenger store page

    NSW police banned from using WhatsApp on work phones

  • Mom and her three kids looking at an ipad together

    The Guardian view on the other influencers: a golden era for science education

  • a close-up of a person holding a tablet and touching the screen

    Companies building AI-powered tech are using your posts. Here’s how to opt out

    Even if you haven’t knowingly opted in, companies are still scraping your personal information to train their systems
  • Marina Hyde

    Hail Zuckus Maximus! The master of the metaverse is finally sorry … for being sorry

    Marina Hyde
    Mark Zuckerberg is embracing both AI and full-on imperial monomania. As for all the petty gripes, so what? says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
  • Nicola Bulle

    Online sleuthing about Nicola Bulley became a ‘monster’, partner says

    Search prompted weeks of speculation and multiple conspiracy theories on social media
  • Elon Musk

    Elon Musk hits back at UK government after he is not invited to tech summit

    X owner responds by saying people should avoid UK when ‘they’re releasing convicted pedophiles’
  • A hand holding a leaflet in front of women sitting in a row

    Race to combat mpox misinformation as vaccine rollout in DRC begins

    Poll suggests half of Congolese have not heard of deadly disease, as conspiracy theories and rumours spread
  • A crowd of men looking through binoculars behind a gate

    The age of extinction
    ‘You could single-handedly push it to extinction’: how social media is putting our rarest wildlife at risk

    From breeding spots overrun by visitors to photographers disturbing endangered species, experts say the rarer the find is, the bigger the problem
  • Two men stand near a burning car

    Local. Left behind. Prey to populist politics? What the data tells us about the 2024 UK rioters

  • Paolo Gerbaudo

    Elon Musk’s Twitter coup has harmed the right. They are now simply ‘too online’

    Paolo Gerbaudo
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