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UK campaigner targeted by Trump accuses tech giants of ‘sociopathic greed’

ai, AI (Artificial Intelligence), Artificial Intelligence, Artificial intelligence (AI), ChatGPT, Digital media, Elon Musk, Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney, Online abuse, Social media, Trump administration, UK news, US news, US politics, World news

Exclusive: Imran Ahmed says US companies are ‘corrupting the system’ of politics by seeking to avoid accountabilityA British anti-disinformation campaigner told by the Trump administration that he faces possible removal from the US has said he is being targeted by arrogant and “sociopathic” tech companies for trying to hold them to account.Imran Ahmed, the chief […]

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The Class Where ‘Screenagers’ Train to Navigate Social Media and A.I.

Artificial Intelligence, California, Code.org, Computers and the Internet, Education (K-12), Media Literacy Now Inc, Rumors and Misinformation, Social media, Teachers and School Employees, Teenagers and Adolescence, TikTok (ByteDance)

New technologies are complicating efforts to teach the scrolling generation to think critically and defensively online.

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‘A gamechanger’: 200,000 UK small businesses sign up to TikTok Shop

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Big brands such as Sainsbury’s and M&S also selling directly in app through links in videos and livestreamsIt is better known for its viral dances and for making hits out of forgotten songs, but the social media site TikTok is becoming a force to be reckoned with as a shopping platform.Major retailers such as Marks

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Elon Musk, AI and the antichrist: the biggest tech stories of 2025

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A look back at the biggest tech stories of the year, from the rise and fall of Musk’s Doge to lucrative investments into AIHello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, wishing you a happy and healthy end of the year. I myself have a cold.Today, we are looking back at the biggest

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Should we turn the internet off?

Artificial Intelligence, Digital media, ethics, Internet, Life and style, Media, Philosophy, Politics, Social media, Technology, World news

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions ponders whether life would be better in a post-online, analogue worldThe internet has turned fringe belief into mainstream politics and policy – from authoritarianism to vaccines. With democracy itself threatened, is it time to go back to a previous world of landlines, letters and face

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Tinsel and Home Alone back in style as TikTok seeks comfort in #90sChristmas

Artificial Intelligence, Christmas, Homes, Interiors, Life and style, Media, Social media, Technology, TikTok

Emphasis this year is on nostalgia as present day feels ‘a bit more uncertain’, say trend expertsTinsel, DIY tree decorations, deep burgundy drapes – and Home Alone on VHS. Christmas has gone retro on TikTok, and in people’s living rooms.The app has reported a surge in Christmas decor videos, with an emphasis on nostalgia as

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Television in titbits: the rise of the billion-dollar microdrama industry

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Hollywood is betting big on vertical microdramas told in chunks under two minutes. Can a gimmick turn into a new form of entertainment?If you have been anywhere close to the social media blast radius of The Summer I Turned Pretty, Amazon Prime’s breakout YA series on a tortuous teen love triangle, you may be familiar

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Trump Media announces $6bn merger plan with fusion power company

Artificial Intelligence, Artificial intelligence (AI), Business, Energy industry, Media, Social media

TMTG, which owns president’s Truth Social platform, unveils link-up TAE Technologies to respond to AI boomDonald Trump’s loss-making social media business has announced plans to merge with a fusion power company.Trump Media and Technology Group, owner of the US president’s minnow Truth Social platform, unveiled an extraordinary merger worth more than $6bn with TAE Technologies,

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