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‘No influencers’: the hotels, restaurants and beauty spots restricting photoshoots

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Backlash against content creators includes restricted hours for filming and even outright bansStand in any vaguely photogenic spot these days on holiday and the chances are you will come across people posing with raised phones and even ring lights. Some may be influencers with huge audiences on social media, others just overkeen Instagram users. With

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Fake Linda and me: the Agatha Christie-worthy mystery of the fraudster who stole my byline

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How a string of bizarre events led writer Linda Geddes to don her sleuthing cap and dig into a world of shadowy impersonatorsIt started with an entirely ordinary interaction on LinkedIn. Someone had tagged me in a post, saying how much they’d enjoyed contributing to a New York Post article I’d written about “chronoworking”. As

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AI threatens democracy. But we are not powerless: here’s how to fight back | Carine Fouteau

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Tech platforms pillage public-interest journalism for profit. But we have leverage as they sow the seeds of their own downfallCarine Fouteau is president and publishing director of the French investigative news outlet MediapartBig tech companies pose an immeasurable threat: socially, politically, militarily and ecologically. They are also causing a profound crisis of information. The tools

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As a pediatrician, loss of human connection is the biggest threat to kids, not AI

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Amid worries about children’s relationship to tech, the solution is often spending more time talking openly with each otherWe have become obsessed with the idea that screens are destroying human connection.The evidence seems to be everywhere. Each week headlines warn of teenagers addicted to phones, a loneliness epidemic and the dangers of AI. The release

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Parents fear YouTubers are bringing ‘brain rot’ to Netflix. But are kids wising up to ‘slop’?

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As streamers poach viral creators to appeal to children, digital whack-a-mole has become a new kind of family challengeExasperated dad Simon Hooper shakes his fist at the camera in a viral video. “We managed to get rid of YouTube in our household six months ago and the kids are finally OK with it,” he says

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Lost generation: the AI threat to Britain’s next great directors

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Commercials once launched careers from Ridley Scott to Guy Ritchie, now automated production is cutting costs – and the chance to learn by doingWhen Ridley Scott was awarded the UK’s highest accolade for a glittering career directing films from Alien and Blade Runner to Gladiator and The Martian, he reminded those attending the Bafta event

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Why Arturo Béjar left Meta – and blew the whistle: ‘I don’t recall Mark ever being empathetic’

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Béjar’s daughter was 14 when she told him Instagram was failing to keep her safe. So when he became part of Meta’s ‘wellbeing team’, he knew he had to speak out – and his testimony cost it billionsThe Social Reckoning hits cinemas this Friday, but the real world has already been working on a sequel

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Molly Russell’s father to tell UK cinemagoers: ‘Instagram helped kill my daughter’

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In ad to be shown before The Social Reckoning, Ian Russell will say ‘too little has changed’ since death of Molly, 14The father of Molly Russell will tell UK cinemagoers “Instagram helped kill my daughter” before screenings of a new film about Mark Zuckerberg’s social media empire.Speaking in an advert to be shown before The

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Ofcom investigates Meta over Instagram Instants safety checks

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Watchdog examining whether company carried out adequate risk assessment as required by Online Safety ActMark Zuckerberg’s Meta is under investigation for a potential breach of the UK’s digital safety laws after launching a Snapchat-style feature on Instagram.The UK’s communications watchdog, Ofcom, is investigating whether the $1.9tn (£1.4tn) company infringed the Online Safety Act (OSA) by

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‘If you can’t hold it, you don’t own it’: why media fans want to escape algorithms with CDs, DVDs and vinyl

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People describe their return to physical media – whether to protect data, support artists, or retain control of one’s choices For some, it is the security of knowing they have a physical copy of their favourite films and music, free from algorithms, interruptions and the vagaries of streaming. For others, it is the sound of

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