The new public square is fact-free social media – and it couldn’t come at a worse time for Australia

Navigating the next 100 days of Australian politics online will require sharp teeth to discern fact from fiction

TikTok says it is restoring service in US after Trump vowed to delay ban

President-elect says order would give company extra 90 days to find buyer and suggests that US take a 50% stake

Other lives: Computer scientist instrumental in the installation of the first Unix system in the UK

Asset triples in price from $20 per token to more than $70, with at least $24bn in trading as of Sunday morning

Claiming a threat from a ‘foreign adversary’, the US has yet to prove China shared propaganda or collected US user data

Darren Jones defends decision to allow app to continue running in UK as it stops working in US ahead of national ban

Chloë Hamilton explores the possibilities, with surprising results…

The annual gathering of the globally minded is looking forlorn in the light of Trump 2.0 and trade rows

Amazon’s Beast Games reflects the greed, narcissism and worship of aggro-capitalism that has brought us our second helping of Trump

Outgoing agency head was a determined antitrust enforcer during her tenure, but some detractors say she was a bully with unchecked power

Imaginations of science fiction community used to help policymakers prepare for potential crises in Britain

Observer analysis finds unregulated products being promoted as contraception despite concerns about their accuracy

As Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos attempt to reshape our reality, my advice is to avoid their toxic platforms and wait it out

It just led to him recreating its annoying content offline

To realise his dream for economic growth, Keir Starmer must seize the reins of technological power