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Mumsnet campaign demands ban on social media for under-16s

Resembling cigarette packet warnings, the ads highlight dangers and urge people to email MPs Mumsnet has launched a campaign to introduce a ban on social media for under-16s featuring health warnings in the style of those on cigarette packets.The deliberately provocative national advertising campaign calls for all social media to be banned for children under […]

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Amused by that AI video of a dancing raccoon? This is how the misery starts | Polly Hudson

AI is already coming for our dignity – tricking us with amusing little online scenarios. How long before it comes for everything else?Moan all you like about technology, there’s no denying it’s made friendship easier. In an ideal world you would spend quality time together, have deep meaningful chats on the phone and swap well

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Nine urges Albanese to prop up media in face of AI threat

Long-awaited news bargaining code with Google, Meta and TikTok at risk of further delay, chief executive saysSign up for Guardian Australia’s free weekly media newsletter hereThe head of Nine Entertainment has called on the prime minister to prioritise a policy to force global platforms to compensate local media as artificial intelligence-fuelled big tech disrupts the

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As we enter the age of the AI-rranged marriage, here’s why I hate Fate | Van Badham

When the most profound human emotion becomes an automated transaction in an online shop, the techlords have wonThe Guardian reported on the arrival of “Fate” and, friends, I laughed. Or maybe I cried.It’s apparently the first “agentic AI dating app”. An AI personality named “Fate” interviews users, runs data matches on their hopes and dreams,

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John Oliver on Elon Musk’s X: ‘Now worse than useless’

Last Week Tonight host delved into the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in relation to the Epstein files and Musk’s poisonous ownership of XOn his new episode of Last Week Tonight, John Oliver wasted no time digging into the files related to late pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein, which have once again ensnared former prince Andrew.Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor,

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How to win friends and influencers: Labour’s new social media strategy is a step into the future | Kirsty Major

There was a backlash when No 10 invited online content creators inside its doors. But in a fast-changing media landscape, this solves two problems at onceLast year, No 10 took an unprecedented step: it invited content creators to cross the threshold of Downing Street.Naturally, the creators all filmed themselves outside the famous door. Once inside,

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Coca-Cola turns to AI marketing as price-led growth slows

Shifting from price hikes to persuasion, Coca-Cola’s latest strategy signals how AI is moving deeper into the core of corporate marketing. Recent coverage of the company’s leadership discussions shows that Coca-Cola is entering what executives describe as a new phase focused on influence not pricing power. According to Mi-3, the company is changing its focus

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Digital blackface flourishes under Trump and AI: ‘The state is bending reality’

From TikTok deepfakes to smears put out by the White House, fake videos modeled on Black archetypes are running rampant – putting Black users at riskLate last year, as a US government shutdown cut off the Snap benefits that low-income families rely on for groceries, videos on social media cast the fallout in frantic scenes.

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Tech firms must remove ‘revenge porn’ in 48 hours or risk being blocked, says Starmer

PM says measure, also applied to deepfake nudes, is needed owing to a ‘national emergency’ of online misogynyDeepfake nudes and “revenge porn” must be removed from the internet within 48 hours or technology firms risk being blocked in the UK, Keir Starmer has said, calling it a “national emergency” that the government must confront.Companies could

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