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Why are beta blockers so popular?
7 mins • S1, E1340
Catherine Neilan
‘They know the platforms are addictive’: lawyer who led LA case against big tech to advise UK
Sun 12 Apr 2026
John Naughton
The new Ofcom chair’s first task is to tame Elon Musk
Sat 4 Apr 2026
Rachel Sylvester
‘People died’: Meta failed to heed warnings about harms to children
Sun 29 Mar 2026
Stephen Armstrong
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
Rachel Sylvester
Starmer pledges to ban ‘addictive algorithms’ that keep children online
Sat 28 Mar 2026
Social media may have changed forever
8 mins • S1, E1328
John Simpson
Social media ‘cesspits’ stoke anti-Muslim hostility, says ex-law chief
Sun 22 Mar 2026
Sarah Manavis
Inside the scary world of the ‘anti-fan’
Wed 18 Mar 2026
Kenan Malik
Why so many missed the point of the Economist’s Khamenei obituary
Sun 15 Mar 2026
Patrick Kidd
Meet Instagram’s Steptoe
Sun 15 Mar 2026
RóisÃn Lanigan
Nothing’s more stressful than this cortisol craze
Fri 13 Mar 2026
Lily Isaacs
What do teenage boys see on TikTok?
Mon 9 Mar 2026
RóisÃn Lanigan
The rise and fall of Twitter
Sat 7 Mar 2026
Xavier Greenwood
Dubai’s influencers say Iranian strikes are nothing to worry about
Fri 6 Mar 2026
Killian Fox
Hasan Piker: ‘The left should be better at manufacturing outrage’
Fri 6 Mar 2026
Olivia Ovenden
Dubai’s influencers discover you can’t curate a war
Fri 6 Mar 2026
Lily Isaacs
Nancy Guthrie and the true crime influencers
Mon 2 Mar 2026
John Simpson
Viral memes fuel hysteria over school fight clubs
Sat 28 Feb 2026
Xavier Greenwood
‘Foolish’ and ‘idiotic’: the danger tourists following in the footsteps of the conquistadors
Fri 27 Feb 2026
Evan Moffitt
Clavicular didn’t invent ‘looksmaxxing’ – gay men have been at it for a long time
Wed 25 Feb 2026
Vanessa Thorpe
Shoshana Zuboff takes on the tech bros
Fri 20 Feb 2026
Lily Isaacs
Slazenger gives ‘full creative control’ to 23-year-old TikTok star
Tue 17 Feb 2026
Megan Nolan
An Hour With… Dan Rosen
Sun 8 Feb 2026
John Naughton
Call my AI agent! Chatbots can now post on their own version of Reddit
Fri 6 Feb 2026
Lily Isaacs
Epstein has become a meme, not a monster
Wed 4 Feb 2026
John Naughton
‘AI swarms’ are mass-producing misinformation. Democracy may get stung
Fri 30 Jan 2026
Xavier Greenwood
Peeling back 40 years of the Onion’s satirical newsroom
Mon 26 Jan 2026
Patricia Clarke
Young people turning to Childline for help with AI dependency
Mon 19 Jan 2026
Megan Nolan
The lost art of paying attention
Sat 17 Jan 2026
Rachel Sylvester
Fears that algorithms are creating young terrorists shifts mood at No 10 in favour of an Australian-style ban
Sat 17 Jan 2026
Amber Rudd
Children can’t escape the horrors of social media. Ban it for under-16s
Wed 7 Jan 2026
John Naughton
How the media made Nick Fuentes
Fri 19 Dec 2025
The Observer leader
Britain needs an Australian-style social media ban
Sun 14 Dec 2025
Simon Parkin
How we lost our taste for the vicious restaurant review
Sat 13 Dec 2025
Hayley Myers
Make Me A Offer: meet the TikTok veterans
Fri 12 Dec 2025
Rachel Sylvester
Starmer accused of ‘blind spot’ over dangers of social media for children
Fri 12 Dec 2025
Lily Isaacs
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
7 mins • S1, E1252
Jasper Corbett
Australia’s social media experiment will be watched around the world
Fri 28 Nov 2025
Andrew Hankinson
Graham Linehan won’t shut up
Thu 27 Nov 2025
John Naughton
Meta fought the law and the law didn’t win
Fri 21 Nov 2025
Shuab Gamote
‘Andrew Tate is dead’: inside the mind of 16-year-olds
Sun 9 Nov 2025
James Tapper
Smugglers cash in as dancing parrots go viral
Sun 9 Nov 2025
Patrick Kidd
Meta makes billions from scam adverts
Sun 9 Nov 2025
Xavier Greenwood
Dough not mess with me: how TikTok star Zoë Bread took on Liverpool council
Sat 8 Nov 2025
John Niven
Nobody knows me like the algorithm – and it costs me
Fri 7 Nov 2025
Will Jennings
‘Elon Musk won’t stop. It’s time the British government got off X’
Fri 31 Oct 2025
James Ball
Musk sank Twitter, but his $44bn purchase has fuelled his rise
Mon 27 Oct 2025
Patricia Clarke
Messageboard 4chan refuses to pay fine over ‘free speech’
Sun 26 Oct 2025
John Naughton
Social media is just TV now – and we can’t stop changing the channel
Fri 24 Oct 2025
Sarah Manavis
MrBeast’s bank is one more step towards an influencer-run dystopia
Thu 23 Oct 2025
John Naughton
Here’s a video I’d like to share: Trump bagging TikTok for his investor pals
Fri 3 Oct 2025
Stephen Armstrong
Tech moguls close to Trump take ownership of TikTok in US
Fri 26 Sept 2025
Michael Segalov
Calum Harper lays it all on the table
Fri 26 Sept 2025
Lily Isaacs
MI6 joins Instagram in hunt for next generation of spies
Sun 21 Sept 2025
Why tanning is back in style
6 mins • S1, E1179
Tim Lewis
Jesse Jenkins: ‘Aubergine parm has taken me a long way’
Fri 22 Aug 2025
Brett Anderson
Feeling lonely? Try getting sweaty at a gig
Tue 12 Aug 2025
Martha Gill
Children can’t be safe online. We will have to carry on policing them
Sun 3 Aug 2025
Adele Zeynep Walton
Social media blocking apps are addicting to us too
Wed 23 Jul 2025
John Naughton
Musk’s chatbot praises Hitler then says ‘sorry, my bad, I fell for a hoax’
Sun 13 Jul 2025
Olivia Ovenden
I quit Instagram. This is what I lost
Sat 5 Jul 2025
Michaela Makusha
Just like Charlize, I have no-go photos
Thu 3 Jul 2025
Rachael Healy
The battle of Tattle: gossip victims call for website to shut
Fri 20 Jun 2025
Stephen Armstrong
Groundhog day: another deadline extension leaves TikTok sale in purgatory
Fri 20 Jun 2025
Xavier Greenwood
The dangers of the social media disaster chasers
Mon 16 Jun 2025
Rachel Cooke
My membership of Puffin's book club was life-changing
Sun 15 Jun 2025
Michaela Makusha
I miss Club Penguin and the noughties internet
Wed 11 Jun 2025
RóisÃn Lanigan
RóisÃn Lanigan: the scrambled thinking behind ovulation mania
Sat 24 May 2025
Anna Fazackerley
Teens warned against TikToks that predict exam questions
Sat 24 May 2025
