Age verification laws designed to block children from online porn sites are sweeping the US, Io Dodds writes. But do they actually protect children, or is there another agenda at work?

The Facebook and Instagram boss has shown just how deep he’s willing to stoop for the benefit of his commercial empire — and just how little his last eight years of promises really meant, writes Io Dodds

The social media giant Meta has loosened its public rules on hate speech as Mark Zuckerberg seeks to curry favour with Donald Trump

‘This not only will hurt girls now, it will change college enrollment,’ one expert warned

‘We will protect it, and cherish it, from a very vicious outside World,’ soon-to-be-president vows as he announces son’s trip

His post on X marked a surreal new step in the billionaire tycoon’s escalating feud with Britain’s ruling Labour Party and its leader Keir Starmer

TikTok wouldn’t simply vanish off your smartphone – but in the long term, banning the Chinese video app could rip the heart out of American youth culture, writes Io Dodds

A new film by the executive producer of Tiger King chronicles one 47-year-old man’s multi-million-dollar bid to beat death and live forever. But why is he doing it, and can it possibly work?

Sources told The Wall Street Journal that Musk’s drug use and contact with foreign nationals could lead to his existing security clearance being revoked if he attempts to upgrade it

Advocates said the choice of demonstration during a lesson about slavery and the invention of the cotton gin showed ‘poor taste and judgement’

The jackpot is the eighth highest overall in the lottery’s history, though quite far from the biggest ever in the US

‘I’m asking everyone to send your heartfelt wishes and prayers, and thoughts, yet again, to a community — but this time it’s my community,” Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes told reporters

In the face of ‘eradication’, one trans activist is preparing to fight – and she’s sick of silence and neglect from her supposed allies. Raquel Willis tells Io Dodds why Republican bathroom bans are everybody’s problem

The man accused of killing Brian Thompson had an extensive social media history that makes his worldview very clear, writes Io Dodds

The man charged with murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson came from an influential Baltimore family with longstanding ties to local hospitals

Long before the death of CEO Brian Thompson, the home-made weapons were spreading across the US

Josh Shapiro warned Americans not to let their ‘real frustration with our healthcare system’ lead them to ’dehumanize’ victim Brian Thompson

A group of trans demonstrators staged a defiant sit-in inside the women’s lavatory opposite House speaker Mike Johnson’s office

As their phones blew up with disaster warnings, some Bay Area residents ran for the hills – while others faced death with a shrug. Io Dodds reports on the fear and the farce of the great tsunami that wasn’t

California’s governor signed an emergency declaration in response to the 7.0 earthquake