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Wed 15 Jul 2026

The Observer view: muzzled by Meta

Mon 6 Jul 2026

Silenced Facebook whistleblower could be fined for merely nodding

Sun 5 Jul 2026

TikTok the ‘worst culprit’ for young people’s poor mental health

Fri 3 Jul 2026

Being seen as a good or bad mum is the mother of all paradoxes

Wed 1 Jul 2026

Beeban Kidron’s Users calls out the tech bros making billions selling porn to children

Fri 26 Jun 2026

Can you spot a deepfake?

Wed 24 Jun 2026

Andrew Stanton: the Pixar director taking toxic tech to Toy Story

Mon 22 Jun 2026

Saf’s cartoon: my super scroll sixteenth

Sun 21 Jun 2026

Burnham’s path to No 10 may lead past Elon Musk

Sat 20 Jun 2026

First government department quits X over racism and violence concerns

Thu 18 Jun 2026

Toy Story 5: The kids are not all right

Tue 16 Jun 2026

The social media ban isn’t enough

Mon 15 Jun 2026

Curry Barker: the young debut director terrifying Gen Z cinema audiences

Mon 15 Jun 2026

A right to free speech should not trump our right to the truth. It is time our laws recognised that

Sun 14 Jun 2026

Doctor, the critics will see you now: we’re still diagnosing House – 14 years on

Sun 14 Jun 2026

David Hockney helped me find my place in the world as a young gay man

Sun 14 Jun 2026

The world’s become a darker place in the last six months, but there’s still reasons to be cheerful

Sun 14 Jun 2026

Frank Cottrell-Boyce: ‘We’ve treated a generation of children now at school with carelessness’

Sat 13 Jun 2026

Online child safety is not just a tech problem – it’s a political one

Fri 12 Jun 2026

‘A new home for old fascists’: Restore Britain steals a march rightwards from Farage’s Reform

Sun 7 Jun 2026

Finding love may Hinge on how much you share about yourself

Sun 7 Jun 2026

It’s not the British Museum’s job to police the culture wars

Sun 7 Jun 2026

Musk ‘a threat to democracy in Britain’, says Wes Streeting after Southampton disorder

Sat 6 Jun 2026

Jeanette Dickson: combative chair of the royal medical colleges

Sun 31 May 2026

‘Reverse Ozempic’ epidemic putting east African women at risk

Sun 31 May 2026

Google’s AI Search is seducing us into a spoon-fed future

Sat 30 May 2026

‘Social media is killing our children’: rise in violence bolsters call for under-16 ban

Sun 24 May 2026

Inside the vicious campaign to cancel the Southbank’s polarising boss

Sun 24 May 2026

Keir Starmer embraces radicalism as he accepts his time in Downing Street is ending

Sun 24 May 2026

‘Have you seen Club Kid yet?’ Why everyone in Cannes is asking the same question

Sun 24 May 2026

Could OnlyFans become the bank that likes to say yes, yes, yes...?

Sun 17 May 2026

Ofcom fining a pro-suicide website is no substitute for a public inquiry into government failures

Sun 17 May 2026

Police dismiss conspiracy theories over deaths of three women in Brighton

Sun 17 May 2026

Patrick Radden Keefe: ‘Fakery is the coin of the realm. Underlying it is a sense that we’re all

Sat 16 May 2026

Lively vs Baldoni: Inside Hollywood’s PR machine

Claire’s was doomed when it lost its sparkle with gen Alpha

Sun 3 May 2026

Alex Cooper: disarming podcaster who gets celebrities to open up under the spotlight

Sun 26 Apr 2026

Forex and flash cars: the fight to keep ‘finfluencers’ in check

Sun 19 Apr 2026

Why are beta blockers so popular?

‘They know the platforms are addictive’: lawyer who led LA case against big tech to advise UK

Sun 12 Apr 2026

The new Ofcom chair’s first task is to tame Elon Musk

Sat 4 Apr 2026

‘People died’: Meta failed to heed warnings about harms to children

Sun 29 Mar 2026

Zuckerberg’s ‘fig leaf’ slips as oversight board proves toothless

Sun 29 Mar 2026

Tech bosses knew their products caused harm

Sun 29 Mar 2026

Starmer pledges to ban ‘addictive algorithms’ that keep children online

Sat 28 Mar 2026

Social media may have changed forever

Social media ‘cesspits’ stoke anti-Muslim hostility, says ex-law chief

Sun 22 Mar 2026

Inside the scary world of the ‘anti-fan’

Wed 18 Mar 2026

Why so many missed the point of the Economist’s Khamenei obituary

Sun 15 Mar 2026

Meet Instagram’s Steptoe

Sun 15 Mar 2026

Nothing’s more stressful than this cortisol craze

Fri 13 Mar 2026

What do teenage boys see on TikTok?

Mon 9 Mar 2026

The rise and fall of Twitter

Sat 7 Mar 2026

Dubai’s influencers say Iranian strikes are nothing to worry about

Fri 6 Mar 2026

Hasan Piker: ‘The left should be better at manufacturing outrage’

Fri 6 Mar 2026

Dubai’s influencers discover you can’t curate a war

Fri 6 Mar 2026

Nancy Guthrie and the true crime influencers

Mon 2 Mar 2026

Viral memes fuel hysteria over school fight clubs

Sat 28 Feb 2026

‘Foolish’ and ‘idiotic’: the danger tourists following in the footsteps of the conquistadors

Fri 27 Feb 2026

Clavicular didn’t invent ‘looksmaxxing’ – gay men have been at it for a long time

Wed 25 Feb 2026

Shoshana Zuboff takes on the tech bros

Fri 20 Feb 2026

Slazenger gives ‘full creative control’ to 23-year-old TikTok star

Tue 17 Feb 2026

An Hour With… Dan Rosen

Sun 8 Feb 2026

Call my AI agent! Chatbots can now post on their own version of Reddit

Fri 6 Feb 2026

Epstein has become a meme, not a monster

Wed 4 Feb 2026

‘AI swarms’ are mass-producing misinformation. Democracy may get stung

Fri 30 Jan 2026

Peeling back 40 years of the Onion’s satirical newsroom

Mon 26 Jan 2026

Young people turning to Childline for help with AI dependency

Mon 19 Jan 2026

The lost art of paying attention

Sat 17 Jan 2026

Fears that algorithms are creating young terrorists shifts mood at No 10 in favour of an Australian-style ban

Sat 17 Jan 2026

Children can’t escape the horrors of social media. Ban it for under-16s

Wed 7 Jan 2026

How the media made Nick Fuentes

Fri 19 Dec 2025

Britain needs an Australian-style social media ban

Sun 14 Dec 2025

How we lost our taste for the vicious restaurant review

Sat 13 Dec 2025

Make Me A Offer: meet the TikTok veterans

Fri 12 Dec 2025

Starmer accused of ‘blind spot’ over dangers of social media for children

Fri 12 Dec 2025

Sorry, Keir – when it comes to TikTok, you’re all at sixes and sevens

Wed 10 Dec 2025

Australia’s social media ban comes into force

Australia’s social media experiment will be watched around the world

Fri 28 Nov 2025

Graham Linehan won’t shut up

Thu 27 Nov 2025

Meta fought the law and the law didn’t win

Fri 21 Nov 2025

‘Andrew Tate is dead’: inside the mind of 16-year-olds

Sun 9 Nov 2025

Smugglers cash in as dancing parrots go viral

Sun 9 Nov 2025

Meta makes billions from scam adverts

Sun 9 Nov 2025

Dough not mess with me: how TikTok star Zoë Bread took on Liverpool council

Sat 8 Nov 2025

Nobody knows me like the algorithm – and it costs me

Fri 7 Nov 2025

‘Elon Musk won’t stop. It’s time the British government got off X’

Fri 31 Oct 2025

Musk sank Twitter, but his $44bn purchase has fuelled his rise

Mon 27 Oct 2025

Messageboard 4chan refuses to pay fine over ‘free speech’

Sun 26 Oct 2025

Social media is just TV now – and we can’t stop changing the channel

Fri 24 Oct 2025

MrBeast’s bank is one more step towards an influencer-run dystopia

Thu 23 Oct 2025

Here’s a video I’d like to share: Trump bagging TikTok for his investor pals

Fri 3 Oct 2025

Tech moguls close to Trump take ownership of TikTok in US

Fri 26 Sept 2025

Calum Harper lays it all on the table

Fri 26 Sept 2025

MI6 joins Instagram in hunt for next generation of spies

Sun 21 Sept 2025

Why tanning is back in style

Jesse Jenkins: ‘Aubergine parm has taken me a long way’

Fri 22 Aug 2025

Feeling lonely? Try getting sweaty at a gig

Tue 12 Aug 2025