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February 2026

  • A person holding a mobile phone displaying the 'X' logo in front of Elon Musk's page on X

    French headquarters of Elon Musk’s X raided by Paris cybercrime unit

    Prosecutors’ announcement comes amid a hardening of European attitudes to social media firms
  • The newly Americanized TikTok faced a rocky first week.

    Why TikTok’s first week of American ownership was a disaster

    App endured a major outage and user backlash over perceived censorship. Now it’s facing an inquiry by the California governor and an ascendant competitor
  • Robert Topinka

    All politics is digital politics
    How the left can win back the internet – and rise again

    Robert Topinka
    In the final part of this series, we look at how infighting has ripped the left apart online while the right has flourished – and how some progressives are turning the tide, says digital media academic Robert Topinka

31 January 2026

  • Mark Zuckerberg on stage holding a microphone.

    What to know about the jury trials of Meta, Snap, TikTok and YouTube

  • Robert Topinka

    All politics is digital politics
    How the right won the internet

    Robert Topinka
  • Headshot of writer Will Storr, looking straight to camera

    We have lost so much of ourselves to smartphones: can we get it back?

  • Composite of six people with their electronic devicesL-R: Shere Mohamed, Pippa White, Barnaby Lashbrooke, Paula Gadsden, Dayeon Lim, Katrina Mirpuri

    Can you guess our screen time? A priest, pensioner, tech CEO and teenager reveal all

30 January 2026

  • Paolo Gerbaudo

    What the US TikTok takeover is already revealing about new forms of censorship

    Paolo Gerbaudo
  • Robert Topinka

    All politics is digital politics
    How liberals lost the internet

    Robert Topinka

29 January 2026

  • A woman's hand holds a mobile phone as she tries to connect to the internet; she holds her phone over a closed silver laptop, which is resting on a red patterned Persian rug.

    UK-based pair behind messaging app accused of giving data to Iranian regime

    Exclusive: Branch of Iranian software company TSIT, which makes Gap Messenger, is registered in Sussex
  • Mother using smartphone to photograph herself and baby

    Don’t blame parents for ‘sharenting’ – help them understand the risks

    Letters: Dr Claire Bessant says we should not vilify parents who are under pressure from family and friends to share photographs of their children on social media – but Rachel Linthe says the harms are well known

    • Millions created deepfake nudes on Telegram as AI tools drive global wave of digital abuse

    • ‘This can’t be left to individual families’: how social media ban could affect under-16s

    • As most TV viewers tune in via broadband, will 2034 signal the death of Freeview?

28 January 2026

  • A Google sign over the entrance to a building in New York

    UK media groups should be allowed to opt out of Google AI Overviews, CMA says

    News organisations hope proposals will increase leverage to get paid if content is used in AI summaries

27 January 2026

  • Man sits on stage with mi

    Tech giants head to landmark US trial over social media addiction claims

    Meta, YouTube and TikTok accused of making products intentionally addictive and harmful to young people

26 January 2026

  • A teacher collects a student's mobile phone, set aside during classes at the Jean Mermoz vocational high school in Montsoult, in the northern suburbs of Paris, on 14 January 2026

    French lawmakers vote to ban social media use by under-15s

    Legislation, which also bans mobile phones in high schools, would make France the second country after Australia to take such a step
  • Children playing with Lego

    Children need to get their hands on a project, not a screen

    Letters: Georgi Kamov and Lisa Harms respond to an article about how screen time affects children and share their experiences in Bulgaria and the US
  • Zoe Hannah and Maddy Myers (right), co-founders of feminist video games website Mothership.

    Why I’m launching a feminist video games website in 2026

    Maddy Myers
    I’ve been a games journalist since 2007, but still there isn’t much video games coverage that feels like it’s specifically for people like me. So I’m creating a home for it: Mothership

25 January 2026

  • Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

    Brooklyn Beckham and Prince Harry are the canaries in the coalmine. The children of Instagram will be next

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
    A generation of overexposed children are being used by their parents for social media clout. What happens when they start to speak out, asks Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
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