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Goooool v goal: English speakers flock to Telemundo for lively World Cup coverage

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The Spanish-language broadcaster has won over millions of US viewers with its energetic commentary during gamesSoccer fans looking to watch the 2026 World Cup on US television have been presented with two very different options this tournament.The first is Fox Sports, a cousin of Fox News owned by the same parent company and the sole […]

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The history of brilliantly terrible World Cup video games

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As football fans revel in the real world tournament, its digital counterparts continue to stumble in capturing the ​hyped up ​atmosphereDon’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereI come with a warning to all football fans: if you’ve been enjoying the World Cup enough to think, “I’d like to re-enact this on

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Let’s call it what it is: antisocial media | Brief letters

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Tech platforms | Concerned AI | David Sullivan | Contacting MPs | MoggingWhy is it that in the coverage of the downsides of the activities of the tech bros’ platforms, the term “social media” is used (Ministers may try to curb spread of misinformation during social unrest, 6 June). “Social” implies care, consideration and cooperation.

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Ofcom warns social media firms over online abuse during World Cup

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Regulator will monitor measures taken by companies‘Spikes have often targeted Black and minority ethnic players’Ofcom has written to social media companies to remind them of their responsibilities regarding online abuse and said it will monitor measures taken against “illegal hate content” during the World Cup.After the experience of England players during the men’s 2021 European

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Goals review – disruptor football game attempts to smash the competition

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Released just before the World Cup kicks off, this upstart football game is positioning itself as a credible alternative to EA Sports FCThis month something extremely unusual happened in the video game world: someone launched a new football game. It used to be that the market could support a vast array of contenders, from arcade

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Fifa expanding AI use at World Cup to reduce amount of abuse seen by players

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Social media protection service offered by FifaEnglish FA yet to confirm whether it will use serviceFifa will expand the use of AI at the World Cup to reduce the amount of abusive messages that teams and players are exposed to on social media.World football’s governing body introduced a social media protection service after the 2022

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‘Occasionally a picture can change the course of history’: 33 scandalous photos that shocked the world

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When it comes to scandal, seeing is believing – which is why these images caused such a stirWords can tell a story, but it’s pictures that will make you believe in it. Such is the power of a photograph; the ability to strip away illusions, to illuminate something hidden, and sometimes force us to accept

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Liverpool and Manchester United complain to X over ‘sickening’ Grok AI posts

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AI feature generated offensive posts about Diogo Jota and the Hillsborough and Munich disastersLiverpool and Manchester United have complained to Elon Musk’s X after the Grok AI feature made offensive posts about Diogo Jota and the Hillsborough and Munich disasters.The posts were generated when users asked the AI tool to make hateful posts about the

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The influencer World Cup: Fifa and the TikTok deal targeting an avalanche of posts

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Partnership with tech giant speaks to push to engage younger fans but also has wider strategic goals in mindIn this World Cup year, Fifa has come out of the blocks quickly. In the past few weeks any number of initiatives have been announced or activated, from a data partnership with Opta to facilitate more betting,

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Deny, deny, admit: UK police used Copilot AI “hallucination” when banning football fans

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After repeatedly denying for weeks that his force used AI tools, the chief constable of the West Midlands police has finally admitted that a hugely controversial decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv football fans from the UK did involve hallucinated information from Microsoft Copilot. In October 2025, Birmingham’s Safety Advisory Group (SAG) met to decide

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