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Dubai influencers’ lives of luxury interrupted by Iran strikes: ‘The image of safety has been shattered’

Contradicting images of parties and war-flooded feeds after Iran targeted Gulf states in retaliation for US-Israeli attacksMike Babayan was in a hookah lounge when he heard the explosion on Saturday night. Dubai – a gilded...

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Hundreds of UK teenagers to pilot social media bans and restrictions

Trials to form part of three-month consultation on Keir Starmer’s plans to tackle negative effects of smartphone useHundreds of teenagers will be enlisted to trial social media bans in the coming months with overnight...

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Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more

A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternativesThere’s not much to love about big tech these...

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Life after Molly: Ian Russell on big tech, his daughter’s death – and why a social media ban won’t work

Molly Russell was just 14 when she took her own life in 2017, and an inquest later found negative online content was a significant factor. With many people now pushing for teenagers to be kept off tech platforms, her father...

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Kemi Badenoch says Tories would ban under-16s from ‘addictive’ social media

Conservative leader backs Australian-inspired policy to stop platforms ‘profiting from their anxiety’UK politics live – latest updatesThe Conservatives are backing a ban on social media for under-16s in an...

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‘Don’t pander to the tech giants!’ How a youth movement for digital justice is spreading across Europe

Gen z are the first generation to have grown up with social media, they were the earliest adopters, and therefore the first to suffer its harms. Now they are fighting backLate one night in April 2020, towards the start of the...

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