Exclusive: Childnet, a UK charity part-funded by US tech firms, edited out warnings by two young speakers at its 2024 Safer Internet Day event An internet safety campaign backed by US tech companies has been accused of censoring two teenagers they invited to speak out about the biggest issues facing children online. Childnet, a UK charity part-funded by companies including Snap, Roblox and Meta, edited out warnings from Lewis Swire and Saamya Ghai that social media addiction was an “imminent threat to our future” and obsessive scrolling was making people “sick”, according to a record of edits seen by the Guardian. Continue reading...

Like the steam engine, electricity, and computers, generative artificial intelligence could take longer than expected to transform the economy.

Report finds more than £1bn handed out to just 217 FTSE 100 bosses in the last financial year The bosses of Britain’s largest listed companies took home record high pay packets for the third successive year, according to a report. Analysis found that the record set in the last financial year means the average FTSE 100 chief executive is now paid 122 times the salary of the average full-time UK worker. Continue reading...

Les économistes de l’Observatoire français des conjonctures économiques réfutent en parallèle une dérive des dépenses publiques depuis l’arrivée au pouvoir d’Emmanuel Macron.

Texas state House Democrats who left their state to prevent Republicans from passing a new congressional district map were forced to evacuate their hotel after a bomb threat, but officials say ever…

Her disappearance shocked a country where such cases are all too common. Now Domínguez’s family are fighting to stop yet another woman’s death being written off as ‘collateral damage’

Pour obtenir l’aval des autorités, la chaîne a fait plusieurs concessions, dont la résolution d’un contentieux judiciaire ou encore la suppression de dispositifs d’inclusion et de diversité.

Rule would have kept businesses from forcing customers through lengthy chats or other barriers to cancellation