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Plans for age checks on porn sites ‘a privacy minefield’, campaigners warn

Privacy organisations say plans could lead to digital ID system for accessing internet

Marry Me review – Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson are odd couple in bland romcom by numbers

Jennifer Lopez is radioactively humourless and Owen Wilson is robotically bland in this stinker

Where do millennials like me go now for TV authenticity? Big Brother | Lauren O'Neill

Compared to the commercialism and staginess of current reality shows, the daddy of them all retains an unfiltered charm

Facebook should guard against revealing private addresses, board recommends

Oversight Board of Meta recommends exception to privacy rules should be removed

Team GB prove a hit with China in the Winter Olympic fashion stakes

Ben Sherman duffle coat and Chelsea boots proving popularTeam GB reveal efforts to make athletes welcome and safeThe wait for Britain’s first gold medal at these Winter Olympics goes on, but Team GB has become a surprise success off the snow and ice after its opening ceremony kit became a sensation on Weibo, the most widely used social media platform in China.

The Bengals are in the Super Bowl but their owner remains reviled

Cincinnati are on the way to their first Super Bowl in 33 years. Few fans give Mike Brown any credit for getting them there

Bring on the metaverse! How Belle depicts the future as a psychedelic wonderland

Mamoru Hosoda’s new anime presents an enchanting alternative reality, in contrast to Hollywood’s usual terrifying portrayals of virtual life

Elanga racially abused on social media after Manchester United penalty miss

Teenager received racist comments after FA Cup matchTeammates offered support after penalty shootout missManchester United forward Anthony Elanga was racially abused on social media after his penalty shootout miss against Middlesbrough on Friday night.

Meta to bring in mandatory distances between virtual reality avatars

Move follows warnings Mark Zuckerberg’s plan for metaverse could lead to increased online harassment

Sending threatening posts among offences in revised online safety bill

Proposed laws require tech firms to prevent publication of harmful content or face substantial fines

Vice Media secretly organised $20m Saudi government festival

Youth media company organised March 2020 event despite pledge to stop all work in Saudi Arabia

Wordle: New York Times buys viral game for seven-figure sum

Puzzle creator Josh Wardle ‘thrilled’ that newspaper is taking over internet sensation

Freedom of speech was too hard won to be cavalier now about censorship | Kenan Malik

Amid an increasingly confused debate, we must remember that historically it is the powerless who are most often silencedIf the great campaigners for free speech of the past, such as Baruch Spinoza or Mary Wollstonecraft or Frederick Douglass, were alive today, “they would surely declare the 21st century an unprecedented golden age”.

Ellis Genge: ‘Not everyone’s going to like you – you’ve just got to be yourself’

The England prop has transformed himself into a role model and is at the forefront of rugby’s push to become more inclusive

Brentford launch investigation into Ivan Toney video clip on social media

Centre-forward appears to say ‘fuck Brentford’ in clipManager Thomas Frank accepts £8,000 fine for red cardBrentford have launched an investigation after a video of Ivan Toney appearing to say “fuck Brentford” was published on social media.

Watchdog calls for fines for influencers who fail to declare sponsorship

Competition and Markets Authority wants ‘deterrents’ for stars who do not say they are paid to promote products

WHO chief backs Neil Young over Covid misinformation row with Spotify

Singer thanked for ‘standing up against inaccuracies' after the streaming service refused to remove Joe Rogan’s podcast

However you get a kick out of football, certain kicks deserve to be cherished | Max Rushden

VAR controversy around Liverpool’s penalty at Crystal Palace swamped the mesmerising swing of the boot that led to it

Jodorowsky animated Dune in development, says crypto group

Spice DAO, who bought a copy of the 1970s concept art for £2m in November, says a limited series is going ahead despite questions over copyright

Netflix’s Byron Baes cast appear to flout NSW Covid measures in Instagram videos

Covid cases in the Byron Bay area have exploded since DecemberGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingCast members of the Netflix reality series Byron Baes have posted videos to social media of people dancing to live music at a crowded Byron Bay venue in apparent contravention of New South Wales Covid measures.

Proposed anti-trolling laws could worsen online abuse, Australian law experts say

Law Council and defamation experts warn government’s bill offers little protection and could deprive victims of redressGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesThe Law Council and defamation experts have panned the Coalition’s anti-trolling bill, warning it will deprive defamation victims of redress and does little to solve the problem of online trolling.

The hounding of author Kate Clanchy has been a witch-hunt without mercy | Sonia Sodha

Publishers and other institutions are turning cowardly and brittle when faced with social media frenziesA few years ago, when I was still getting to grips with the vagaries of Twitter, I inadvertently took part in a social media pile-on.

A courageous reissue in the not-so-brave new world of publishing | Rachel Cooke

Kay Dick’s They is a forgotten dystopian novel from 45 years ago, but still contentious in an age of social media bullyingA parcel arrives, inside which is a copy of Kay Dick’s dystopian novel of 1977, They: A Sequence of Unease, and a letter informing me that Faber is to reissue it next month.

Wayne Rooney to Everton may not make sense but it sounds seductively real | Barney Ronay

He is in no way qualified but bringing Rooney back to Goodison Park would deliver the rush of authentic emotion we all crave

What happens when your star is cancelled but you can’t cancel the film?

Scandals affecting Armie Hammer, Kevin Spacey and Johnny Depp have all hit their movies. We look at how film companies cope when leading players’ box-office stock crashes

PM-supporting pork pie front page puzzles Sun pundits

Paper causes confusion with allusions to Johnson ‘cutting the mustard’ while being ‘in a pickle’

Facebook’s second life: the unstoppable rise of the tech company in Africa

Western users may be logging off, but across the continent of Africa, the social media company is indispensable for everything from running a business to sourcing vaccines. How has it become so inescapable?

Will Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard finally bring scrutiny on the video game industry? | Akin Olla

The video game industry is bigger than the film and music industries combined – yet has faced far less scrutiny than major tech companies like Facebook and Google

Love Islanders to be named and shamed for not declaring paid-for posts

Francesca Allen, Jess and Eve Gale and model Jodie Marsh among 122 Instagram influencers publicly sanctioned by watchdog

Campaign aims to stop Facebook encryption plans over child abuse fears

No Place to Hide drive funded by Home Office to warn social media firms over dangers of end-to-end encryption

Capitol attack panel subpoenas Google, Facebook and Twitter for digital records

Select committee seeks records related to January 6 attackMove suggests panel is ramping up inquiry of social media postsThe House select committee investigating the Capitol attack subpoenaed Twitter, Meta, Alphabet and Reddit on Thursday for records related to the 6 January insurrection, as it seeks to review data that could potentially incriminate the Trump White House.

Hayley Mills has stolen Oscar replaced

Actor won a ‘Juvenile Oscar’ aged 14 but the half-sized statuette vanished from her house in the 80s and has never been found

‘Why don’t Jews play Jews?’ – David Baddiel on the row over Helen Mirren as Golda Meir

Maureen Lipman sparked fury by suggesting the ex Israeli PM should not be played by Mirren. But, says David Baddiel, why shouldn’t ‘authentic casting’ apply to all minorities? And where is the outcry over Bojack Horseman?

The Power of the Dog among worthy winners as disgraced Golden Globes plays it safe

Jane Campion’s colossal western and Steven Spielberg’s passionate West Side Story revival head up a list that snubs more transgressive offeringsThe Power of the Dog and Succession win at celebrity-free ceremonySo the much-disgraced Golden Globes, derided for a lack of diversity and transparency in the voting membership, lucrative TV coverage cancelled, gravy-train derailed and the awards ceremony dwindled to a virtual event on social media, carries paradoxically on with delivering a set of awards that are in perfectly plausible good taste and not very much different from all the other un-disgraced awards ceremonies.

Australian Border Force investigating whether Novak Djokovic made false travel claim

Djokovic declared he had not travelled for 14 days before entering Australia, a claim apparently contradicted by social media posts.

Hype House: Netflix series shows the depressing side of TikTok fame

The reality show about the LA collective of TikTok stars is a bleak portrait of the relentless, inarticulable job of being oneself online

The Guardian view on Grange Hill and The Wonder Years: old-school drama for new times | Editorial

The Guardian view on Grange Hill and The Wonder Years: old-school drama for new times | Editorial

Trump’s social media app to launch in February, App Store listing says

Truth Social’s launch will come 13 months after the former president was banned from Twitter and Facebook

‘I want to show France who we are’: the slum influencer with his sights on parliament

Nasser Sari has grown a huge social media following documenting life in one of the poorest French neighbourhoods. Now he wants to enter national politics

Philadelphia QB Jalen Hurts urges NFL to act over Washington barrier collapse

Eagles fans fell in post-game incident at FedExField SundayHurts’ open letter calls for improved safety at stadiumIn an open letter, the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts has called on the NFL and the Washington Football Team to improve safety measures at FedExField after a railing collapsed at the stadium on Sunday.

Novak Djokovic flies into Australian Open vaccination storm | Tumaini Carayol

The nine-time champion will face intense scrutiny after he was granted an exemption to compete in the year’s first majorOutrage over Djokovic’s medical exemption to play Australian Open

Twitter permanently bans news aggregation service Politics For All

Spokesperson says account ‘suspended for violating rules on platform manipulation and spam’

Labour calls for UK crackdown on tech firms over anti-vax content

Party says ministers failing to stand up to social media giants as posters continue to churn out disinformationCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMinisters have been urged to take tougher action against companies that fail to stamp out anti-vaccination content online, as it was revealed posters with hundreds of thousands of followers on social media are still churning out disinformation.

Citroën pulls Egypt ad accused of promoting harassment of women

Egyptian singer Amr Diab uses camera installed in car to take photo of woman without consent

Social media is a bad feelings machine. Why can’t we just turn it off for good? | Sirin Kale

I owe my career to Twitter, but two years reporting on the pandemic has made me realise disinformation costs lives

No comfort at the bottom of the feed: how to prevent information overload in the time of Covid

Experts explain techniques to navigate pandemic news so you can avoid being swamped while keeping up to dateGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingThere was a routine.

World Cup leader Mikaela Shiffrin is latest top skier to test positive for Covid

Overall World Cup leader will miss GS and slalom in LienzAbsences will damage Shiffrin’s chances of regaining titleTwo-time Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin is the latest elite skier to test positive for Covid-19 with the Beijing Games less than six weeks away.

‘Please don’t feel alone’: people self-isolating connect on social media

Comedian Sarah Millican keeps Christmas spirits up with Twitter hashtag #JoinIn

Man who stalked BBC presenter Louise Minchin jailed

Carl Davies, 44, given two years and eight months for posting ‘intimidating’ messages to Minchin and her daughter

Thomas Tuchel falls short in stance on Chelsea and Covid vaccines | Jacob Steinberg

The Chelsea manager, unlike Jürgen Klopp, does not want to lay down the law on players getting protected

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The Taliban forced Afghan TV workers into hiding. Now they’re asking Hollywood for help

Television industry employees once used their programs to address progressive ideas. Many are now out of work and fearful to leave their homes

‘Countdown to war’: how the papers covered fears of an imminent Ukraine invasion

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‘We’ll keep reporting, whatever the risk from the junta,’ say Myanmar’s journalists

To avoid arrest, the staff of the 74 Media left their home city, only to face shellfire in their border refuge.

New Zealand defends strict Covid quarantine after pregnant journalist ‘had to turn to Taliban’ for help

Charlotte Bellis, a journalist, says she was forced to return to Afghanistan after her application was met with ‘clauses and technicalities and confusion’

Foreign journalists in China subject to rising intimidation, survey finds

Report says heightened dangers have prompted at least six to leave and many others to develop emergency exit plans

‘Let us eat cake’: how UK newspapers reacted to latest No 10 party claims

Daily Mail remains a Boris Johnson backer but same cannot be said of its sister outletA full list of alleged partiesWhat were the rules in June 2020?Coronavirus – latest global updatesThe print edition of the Daily Mail has remained one of Boris Johnson’s strongest backers in the media, even as other rightwing news outlets – including its sister outlet MailOnline – are increasingly critical of the beleaguered prime minister.

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‘People go a funny colour and keel over’: Briony Greenhill on leading the world’s most intense singing lessons

After discovering the creative joys of collaborative vocal improvisation, the Suffolk singer wants to help people reach into their hearts and bring out their voices

Britney Spears invited to US Congress to discuss conservatorship legal battle

Singer shares letter from Congressmen Charlie Crist and Eric Swalwell on Instagram, saying she was ‘immediately flattered’

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Melt Yourself Down: Pray for Me I Don’t Fit In review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(Decca)This fascinating band once seemed almost too eclectic – but now strong melodies and hooks drive an album that feels entirely of the moment

Record Store Day is harming, not helping, independent music shops like mine

Supply chain chaos and a worldwide vinyl shortage means the annual event that once saved record shops from extinction has lost its way

OAE/Manacorda/Faust review – nimble brilliance and refined care

Royal Festival Hall, LondonIsabelle Faust and Antonello Manacorda did their best to make the case for Schumann’s problematic violin concerto, while Manacorda brought something fresh to familiar works

Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy review – a heartwarming, sometimes heart-rending biopic

It turns out that young Kanye was extremely charming and funny. But that didn’t stop the music industry from refusing to take him seriously as a rapper – possibly causing his controversial current persona

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Plus: long-distance loans, another cracker of the late-comeback-and-win genre and winning with seven menMail us your questions or tweet @TheKnowledge_GU“The other day, the Wordle answer was MOUNT, which got me thinking – is Mason Mount the only footballer (present or former) whose first and second name are recognised five-letter words in the dictionary and therefore legitimate potential answers in Wordle?” asks Joe Hutton.

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