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25 September 2024

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Trump’s on Truth Social MAKING NO SENSE AT ALL AGAIN

    Arwa Mahdawi
    We are all now so desensitised to Trump that it can be easy to forget he lacks the ability to string a sentence together. Yet he’s frighteningly close to being back in charge, writes Arwa Mahdawi
  • Ramen noodles in a bowl, topped with a halved boiled egg

    Sales of instant noodles up as former bad-boy snack turns classy

    A TikTok trend for garnishing ramen noodles has turned yesterday’s post-pub last resort into today’s desirable dish
  • A builder is standing on scaffolding on the exterior of a house.

    Australian Politics
    Guardian Essential report: Who wins in the political debate on housing? – Australian politics podcast

    Guardian Australia’s political editor, Karen Middleton, and Peter Lewis from Essential Media talk about Labor’s stalemate on housing, as well as how voters feel about stronger privacy regulations and the proposed social media ban for children

24 September 2024

  • Ground of young people holding phones in a circle

    How games and apps keep you and your kids addicted – and what we can do about it

    Chris Zomer and Sumudu Mallawaarachchi for the Conversation
  • A smartphone user's finger hovers over icons for various social media apps

    Social media owners top global survey of misinformation concerns

23 September 2024

  • A man wearing a black turtleneck speaks onstage as he folds his hands together

    Telegram’s Pavel Durov announces new crackdown on illegal content after arrest

    Platform with millions of subscribers discloses a more proactive approach to reporting infringers to authorities
  • A group of girls on staring down on their phone

    ‘It’s not a solution for teen girls like me’: Instagram’s new under-18 rules met with skepticism

    Meta’s changes include making teen accounts private and ‘limiting sensitive content’. Many say it’s not enough
  • A residential construction site

    The Guardian Essential report
    Guardian Essential poll: Twice as many voters back Labor’s housing bills as oppose them

    Just 20% of Greens voters supported blocking the government’s Build to Rent and Help to Buy legislation

22 September 2024

  • A person uses a laptop as the hold a bank card

    HSBC calls on tech firms to help refund victims of fraud

    Bank says new UK compensation rules will fail to curb APP scams and prove financial sector is not the problem

21 September 2024

  • An ad by Valor media shows a photo of Elon Musk at a shopping centre in Brasilia.

    Elon Musk backs down in his fight with Brazilian judges to restore X

    The platform agrees to appoint a legal representative in Brazil, pays fines and takes down user accounts that the court had ordered removed
  • A sign on the fence outside a school building says "#MSD Strong"

    Florida sheriff questioned for posting identities of teens who made school shooting threats

    Experts criticize Michael Chitwood’s ‘shaming’ tactic of uploading videos and mugshot of teens to deter gun crime
  • Stuart Heritage

    I am world leader at bagging my shopping faster than Aldi staff can scan it

    Stuart Heritage
    Leroy Lupton’s bagging videos went viral, but he’s a poorly organised amateur. Follow my tips for checkout success

19 September 2024

  • A woman laughing while using her smartphone

    Too many ‘candid’ social media videos are obviously, agonisingly fake. So why are viewers laughing?

    Rebecca Shaw
    Yes, I’m talking about silly clips – but if people think entirely staged pranks are real then I fear for us all
  • A pedestrian walks past a William Hill betting shop in London, Britain July 25, 2016. REUTERS/Neil Hall

    Gambling firm appears to trivialise Lebanon pager blasts in social media post

    London-listed Evoke, which owns William Hill, apologises for post on Israeli Facebook page linking to job ads
  • Alexandre de Moraes

    Brazil top judge accuses X of ‘willful’ circumvention of court-ordered block

    Justice Alexandre de Moraes imposes $900,000 daily fine on banned social media platform in dispute with Elon Musk

18 September 2024

  • Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022.

    Book of the day
    Character Limit by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac review – Musk’s Twitter takeover

  • Woman's hands on a laptop keyboard

    Warning social media videos could be exploited by scammers to clone voices

17 September 2024

  • Teenage girls have fun and conversation using their mobile phones<br>Group of teenage students standing in schoolyard and using mobile phones. They are very happy and playful.

    Until social media giants take responsibility for the harm they cause, I support Australia’s age ban

    Chanel Contos
  • A teenager

    Meta to put under-18 Instagram users into new ‘teen accounts’

16 September 2024

  • A child under a blanket playing with a smartphone

    The Guardian view on children and smartphones: setting some limits is a good idea

    Editorial: Mobile phone use is not the biggest issue facing schools – or society. But device-free time is important
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