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Media companies responsible for Facebook comments, Australian court rules

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UK future science leaders set for £113m boost to push ideas from lab to reality

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British astronaut Tim Peake honoured as comic book character

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Patel calls on G7 to hold tech giants to account if harmful content continues

Girlguiding Girls’ Attitudes Survey 2021

Girlguiding warns of ‘devastating’ fall in girls’ happiness as online harms rise

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Cookie pop-ups ‘fatigue’ a threat to privacy, warns UK data tsar

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Extremist views widespread in England’s classrooms, say teachers

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Scientists develop stretchy robot worms

Pro-Russian trolls have been using reader comments to wield influence, according to researchers

Western news websites 'infiltrated' by pro-Russian trolls - researchers

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Influence operation by pro-Russian trolls ‘infiltrate comments on UK news sites’

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Apple delays launch of child abuse detection tools

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GCHQ uses social media in place of ‘tap on the shoulder’ to recruit cyber spies

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Social media firms ‘not trusted to combat online abuse’

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Branson’s Virgin Galactic grounded pending probe into deviation from airspace

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Apple and Google under pressure from Russia to remove Alexei Navalny’s app

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WhatsApp fined 225 million euro by Irish data protection commissioner

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Apple loosens App Store rules allowing developers to link to external websites

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Code to protect children’s data and privacy online comes into full effect