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  • People leave candles and cards at the base of the statue of John Paul II at the entrance to the Gemelli hospital.

    Vatican seeks to debunk fake news on health of Pope Francis

    Since pontiff was hospitalised conspiracy theories have swirled online claiming he has died
  • Trail image of the S&P 500 on 11 March 2025

    Trump makes flurry of posts as global markets fall amid fears of US recession

    President shares more than 100 Truth Social posts as stock markets react shakily to his refusal to rule out recession
  • Composite image showing Adam Brandt, Abbie Chatfield and Clive Palmer

    The shadow campaign
    Sound the trumpet: Clive Palmer’s carpet-bombing begins again

    Josh Butler and Dan Jervis-Bardy
    The United Australia party is no more but Trumpet of Patriots is making a lot of noise – and its ads look uncannily similar. Plus: policy bantz with Bandt
  • X app logo seen displayed on an iPhone's app store

    Elon Musk claims ‘massive cyber-attack’ caused X outages

  • a sign on a building reads 'TikTok'

    Trump says US in talks with four groups over TikTok sale: ‘It’s up to me’

  • ‘The poet laureate of social media’: Joyce Carol Oates.

    Internet wormhole
    Long live Joyce Carol Oates’ Twitter account: the only pure space left on this hell site

  • Karla Sofía Gascón at the Academy Awards ceremony on 2 March.

    ‘I contemplated the unthinkable’: Karla Sofía Gascón speaks out about ‘overwhelmingly painful’ Oscars season

  • Hannah Mossman Moore photographed in London by Pål Hansen for the Observer New Review, March 2025.

    Observed
    Stalked: how a relentless campaign of online abuse derailed one woman’s life

    A new BBC podcast recounts the ordeal endured by Hannah Mossman Moore, whose phone was bombarded by fake accounts and her personal data weaponised against her
  • Portrait of Rachel Coster holding a microphone and wrapped in yellow and black tape with Boy Room written on it.

    Meet-cutes, boys’ bedrooms and buff bodies: meet the people behind TikTok’s viral vox pop accounts

  • grid of photos from Bushwick: a woman's red handbag, people on a street, a tattoo on a hip, people playing handball, a scene at a club and a person in a barbershop

    Bushwick, Brooklyn: Rising rents, all-nighters and ‘crazy-ass outfits’ in the US’s most exciting neighborhood

  • Donald Trump sitting at his desk

    The Guardian view on Trump and media: attention is power. Can Democrats grab it?

    Editorial: The presidency is no longer just a ‘bully pulpit’. It’s become part of the disinformation machine
  • Isabel Brooks

    As a teenager, I was a victim of online ‘revenge porn’. Here’s how Britain should protect people like me

    Isabel Brooks
    The UK’s current measures to stop non-consensual intimate image abuse are full of loopholes. We need new laws now , says writer Isabel Brooks
  • Gaby Hinsliff

    It’s the age of regret: gen Z grew up glued to their screens, and missed the joy of being human

    Gaby Hinsliff
    A generation who came of age online now feel deprived of real connections. The upside is they are doing something about it, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
  • A defaced Vote Yes sign is seen in Bassendean in Perth, October 2023, during the voice referendum

    Voice referendum normalised racism towards Indigenous Australians, report finds

    Complaints detailing distressing incidents of racism reveal 2023 referendum one of Australia’s ‘darker moments’, author says
  • Mother and children sitting on a couch busy with their mobile phones

    Safer phones bill aimed at young teens watered down after minister opposition

    New proposal calls for research instead of exclusion of under-16s from algorithms and mobile phone bans in schools
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Wooden spoons are making us sick? I thought that was fish slices

    Arwa Mahdawi
    Another day, another health scare. I’m struggling to know which dangers I should take seriously, writes Arwa Mahdawi
  • Teen girl using phone

    Social media firms criticise ‘irrational’ exemption of YouTube from Australia’s under-16s ban

    Meta, TikTok and Snapchat release statements in campaign protesting Labor’s handling of contested legislation
  • Eilish McColgan smiles after winning the women's 10,000m final at the Commonwealth Games in 2022.

    ‘Stop the abuse’: Liz McColgan hits back at online criticism of daughter Eilish

    The Olympic silver medallist Liz McColgan has hit out at the '“demeaning and abusive comments” received on social media by her daughter Eilish
  • composite image of people wearing maga caps with red stars on their mouths

    ‘The basis of eugenics’: Elon Musk and the menacing return of the R-word

    The slur is rooted in the dehumanization of people with intellectual disabilities. Its resurgence threatens the fragile progress we’ve made
  • Pensive woman in front of window

    Mental health crisis ‘means youth is no longer one of happiest times of life’

    UN-commissioned study in UK, US, Ireland, Australia, Canada and New Zealand finds satisfaction rises with age
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