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Information-dense' AI responses are most persuasive but these tend to be less accurate, says security reportChatbots can sway people's political opinions but the most persuasive artificial intelligence models deliver substantial" amounts of inaccurate information in the process, according to the UK government's AI security body.Researchers said the study was the largest and most systematic investigation of AI persuasiveness to date, involving nearly 80,000 British participants holding conversations with 19 different AI models. Continue reading...

Move follows Guardian revelations of Israel's mass surveillance of Palestinians using Microsoft cloudIrish authorities have been formally asked to investigate Microsoft over alleged unlawful data processing by the Israeli Defense Forces.The complaint has been made by the human rights group the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) to the Data Protection Commission, which has legal responsibility in Europe for overseeing all data processing in the European Union. Continue reading...

AVS Group, which runs 18 websites, has 72 hours to make changes required by UK's Online Safety ActA pornography company that runs 18 adult websites has been fined 1m by the watchdog Ofcom for not having strong enough age checks, in the largest fine yet under the UK's Online Safety Act.The Belize-based AVS Group has been hit with the punishment, plus a further 50,000 for failing to respond to information requests. Continue reading...

As the Grand Theft Auto co-writer launches a new project, he reflects on his hugely successful open-world adventures and where game design might go next Don't get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereIt is hard to think of a more modern entertainment format than the open-world video game. These sprawling technological endeavours, which mix narrative, social connectivity and the complete freedom to explore, are uniquely immersive and potentially endless. But do they represent a whole new idea of storytelling?This week I met Dan Houser, the co-founder of Rockstar and lead writer on Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption, who has been in London to talk about his new company, Absurd Ventures. He's working on a range of intriguing projects, including the novel and podcast series A Better Paradise (about a vast online game that goes tragically wrong), and a comedy-adventure set in an online world named Absurdaverse. He told me that, 15 years ago, he was doing press interviews for the Grand Theft Auto IV expansion packs when he had something of a revelation about the series. Continue reading...

Tech companies including Apple and Google made it clear they would not comply due to privacy concernsIndia's government has backtracked on an order for all smartphones to be pre-installed with a state-owned security app after a mass outcry over privacy concerns and refusal by technology companies to comply.The department of telecommunications confirmed it had revoked its previous order for all technology companies to mandatorily install the government's Sanchar Saathi cybersecurity app on to every smartphone in India within 90 days. Continue reading...

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Critics voice concern as government says its Sanchar Saathi app combats cybersecurity threats for 1.2bn telecom usersIndia's telecoms ministry has privately asked smartphone makers to preload all new devices with a state-owned cybersecurity app that cannot be deleted, a government order showed, a move likely to antagonise Apple and privacy advocates.In tackling a recent surge of cybercrime and hacking, India is joining authorities worldwide, most recently in Russia, to frame rules blocking the use of stolen phones for fraud or promoting state-backed government service apps. Continue reading...

John McAuliff won against a Republican by focusing on something affecting all his constituents: the cost of energyJohn McAuliff, a 33-year-old small business owner and former civil servant, was one of the more unlikely Democrats to win election to Virginia's legislature this month, after a campaign in which he could, at times, come off a bit like a Republican.McAuliff was among the 13 Democrats elected to the legislature in Virginia's elections earlier this month, as part of a blowout victory for the party that gives it firm control of the southern state's government. Along with wins in New Jersey, California and elsewhere, the results put some wind back into Democrats' sails nationwide, a year after their drubbing at the hands of Donald Trump and the Republicans. Continue reading...

Workers say the firm's warp-speed' approach fuels pressure, layoffs and rising emissionsMore than 1,000 Amazon employees have signed an open letter expressing serious concerns" about AI development, saying that the company's all-costs justified, warp speed" approach to the powerful technology will cause damage to democracy, to our jobs, and to the earth."The letter, published on Wednesday, was signed by the Amazon workers anonymously, and comes a month after Amazon announced mass layoff plans as it increases adoption of AI in its operations. Continue reading...

Our writer trialled the most powerful robot vacuums - some of which even mop your floors - and these are the ones he rates The best window vacs for clearing condensation: seven expert picks for streak-free shineRobot vacuum cleaners take the drudge work out of cleaning your floors and carpets. No more tiresome weekly stints of vacuuming, and no more last-minute panic sessions when you have visitors on the way. Instead, your compact robot chum regularly trundles out from its dock, sucking up dust, hair and debris to leave your floors looking spick and span.Over the past few years, robot vacuums have become much more affordable, with basic units starting at about 150. They're also doing more than they used to, mopping areas of hard flooring and charging in sophisticated cleaning stations that empty their dust collectors and clean their mop pads for you.Best robot vacuum cleaner overall:

When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts sayKrista Pawloski remembers the single defining moment that shaped her opinion on the ethics of artificial intelligence. As an AI worker on Amazon Mechanical Turk - a marketplace that allows companies to hire workers to perform tasks like entering data or matching an AI prompt with its output - Pawloski spends her time moderating and assessing the quality of AI-generated text, images and videos, as well as some factchecking.Roughly two years ago, while working from home at her dining room table, she took up a job designating tweets as racist or not. When she was presented with a tweet that read Listen to that mooncricket sing", she almost clicked on the no" button before deciding to check the meaning of the word mooncricket", which, to her surprise, was a racial slur against Black Americans. Continue reading...

Prepare to have your perspective shattered by the comedian's visits to our US tech overlords. The upcoming advancements for those with disabilities are life-changingWashing machines liberated women to get soul-crushing jobs that ate up their free time. Social media gave the world one revolution - before it destabilised democracies everywhere else. Now AI is here, and its main job seems to be replacing screenwriters. It's easy to fall into techno-pessimism, but new documentary Seeing into the Future (Sunday 23 November, 8pm, BBC Two) has a different angle. For disabled people, tech has already brought about life-changing advancements. And we haven't seen anything yet.It is presented by comedian and Strictly winner Chris McCausland, who is blind. Some of the most casually astonishing scenes occur early on, showing how he uses his phone - essentially, an eye with a mouth. What T-shirt is this?" he asks, holding up a garment. Agrey T-shirt with a graphic logo of Deftones," his phone obliges. It can even tell him if the shirt needs ironing. But it's where all this is going that fascinates McCausland, so he heads to the US, to see what's in development at the houses of our tech overlords. Continue reading...

In this week's newsletter: When the video-sharing site launched in 2005, there were fears it would replace terrestrial television. It didn't just replace it - it invented entirely new forms of content. ASMR, anyone? Don't get The Guide delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereBarely a month goes by without more news of streaming sites overtaking traditional, terrestrial TV. Predominant among those sits YouTube, with more than 2.5 billion monthly viewers. For people my age - a sprightly 28 - and younger, YouTube is less of an app or website than our answer to radio: the ever-present background hum of modern life. While my mum might leave Radio 4 wittering or BBC News flickering in the corner as she potters about the house, I've got a video essay about Japan's unique approach to urban planning playing on my phone. That's not to say I never watch more traditional TV (although 99% of the time I'm accessing it through some other kind of subscription streaming app), but when I get home after a long day and the thought of ploughing through another hour of grim prestige fare feels too demanding, I'm probably watching YouTube. Which means it's very unlikely that I'm watching the same thing as you.When Google paid $1.65bn for the platform in 2006, (just 18 months after it launched) the price seemed astronomical. Critics questioned whether that valuation could be justified for any video platform. The logic was simple - unless YouTube could replace television, it would never be worth it. Nearly two decades on, that framing undersells what actually happened. YouTube didn't just replace television - it invented entirely new forms of content: vodcasts, vlogs, video essays, reaction videos, ASMR and its heinous cousin mukbang. The platform absorbed new trends and formats at lightning speed, building what became an alternative online mainstream". Before podcasters, TikTokers, Substackers and even influencers, there were YouTubers. Continue reading...

Users noted that in a raft of now-deleted posts, the chatbot would frequently rank Musk top in any given fieldElon Musk's AI, Grok, has been telling users the world's richest person is smarter and more fit than anyone in the world, in a raft of recently deleted posts that have called into question the bot's objectivity.Users on X using the artificial intelligence chatbot in the past week have noted that whatever the comparison - from questions of athleticism to intelligence and even divinity - Musk would frequently come out on top. Continue reading...

While a robot pop star may be novelty now, young people are maturing with a scorn for generic digital productsXania Monet is the latest digital nightmare to emerge from a hellscape of AI content production. No wonder she's popular ... but how long will it last?The music iteration of AI actor" Tilly Norwood, Xania is a composite product manufactured of digital tools: in this case, a photorealistic avatar accompanied by a sound that computers have generated to resemble that of a human voice singing words. Continue reading...

The hot spot seemed the perfect place for Yuletide-loving royalists. But, as with the Eiffel Tower in Beijing and some of the most picturesque windmills in the Netherlands, there was much less to it than first met the eye ...Name: Buckingham Palace Christmas market.Age: Brand new this year. Continue reading...

A lawsuit over automated shopping reveals a deeper struggle over who will control the next generation of AI and what happens when autonomous agents start acting on our behalfHello, and welcome to TechScape. I'm your host, Blake Montgomery.Lies, damned lies and AI: the newest way to influence elections may be here to stayElon Musk's Grok AI briefly says Trump won 2020 presidential electionAI is guzzling energy for slop content - could it be reimagined to help the climate?How Google's DeepMind tool is more quickly' forecasting hurricane behaviorAnthropic announces $50bn plan for datacenter construction in USSoftBank sells stake in Nvidia for $5.8bn as it doubles down on OpenAI betsUS markets struggle amid tech sell-off and economic uncertainty Continue reading...

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Gaming platform to use facial age estimation to limit chats to similar age groups, as allegations of grooming growThe online games platform Roblox is to start blocking children from talking to adult and much older teen strangers from next month as it faces fresh lawsuits alleging it has been exploited by predators to groom children as young as seven.Roblox has reached 150 million daily players of games including viral hits Grow a Garden and Steal a Brainrot but has been hit by legal claims alleging the system's design has made children easy prey for paedophiles". Continue reading...

Regulator found ads for mechanics skewed towards men while those for preschool teachers targeted womenThe French equalities regulator has declared that Facebook's algorithm for placing job adverts is sexist, after an investigation found that adverts for mechanic roles skewed towards men while those for preschool teachers were targeted at women.The Defenseur des Droits watchdog said the Facebook system for targeted job ads treated users differently based on their sex, and constituted indirect discrimination. The regulator recommended that Facebook and its parent company, Meta, took measures to ensure adverts were non-discriminatory, giving the company three months to inform the French body of the measures. Continue reading...

The internet has been rumbling about autocorrect for years - and now AI is changing how the technology worksDon't worry, you're not going mad.If you feel the autocorrect on your iPhone has gone haywire recently - inexplicably correcting words such as come" to coke" and winter" to w Inter" - then you are not the only one. Continue reading...

Third-gen watch adds 5G, satellite SOS and messaging, a bigger screen and longer battery life in same rugged designThe biggest, baddest and boldest Apple Watch is back for its third generation, adding a bigger screen, longer battery life and satellite messaging for when lost in the wilderness.The Ultra 3 is Apple's answer to adventure watches such as Garmin's Fenix 8 Pro while being a full smartwatch for the iPhone with all the trimmings. As such, it is not cheap, costing from 749 (899/$799/A$1,399) - 50 less than 2023's model - sitting above the 369-plus Series 11 and 219 Watch SE 3. Continue reading...

Beneath the free-market rhetoric, Washington actually intervenes to control the building blocks of AI systemsAt first glance, today's artificial intelligence policy landscape suggests a strategic retreat from regulation. As of late, AI leaders such as the US have doubled down on this messaging. JD Vance champions AI policy with a deregulatory flavor". Congress considered a 10-year ban on state AI legislation. On cue, the Trump administration's AI action plan" warns against smothering the technology in bureaucracy at this early stage".But the deregulatory narrative is a critical misconception. Though the US federal government takes a hands-off approach to AI applications such as chatbots and image generators, it is heavily involved in the building blocks of AI. For example, both the Trump and the Biden administrations have been hands-on when it comes to AI chips - a crucial component of powerful AI systems. Biden restricted chip access to competing nations such as China as a matter of national security. The Trump administration has sought deals with countries such as the UAE. Continue reading...

Questions grow over water and energy costs of warehouse of computers in Sonoran desert - but will Project Blue be stopped?A company's opaque plan to build a huge datacenter outside Tucson, Arizona has roiled the desert city over the past few months, the latest US community to push back as tech companies aggressively seek to build out infrastructure for cloud computing and to power the AI boom.The proposed datacenter, known as Project Blue, would span 290 acres in Pima county, and become the biggest development ever in the county, or anywhere in the southern part of the state. Continue reading...

In this week's newsletter: The series is known for its massive multiplayer shootouts, but there's a missed opportunity to tell a meaningful story about warAnd so Battlefield is back. The long-running military shooter series, which specialises in gigantic online multiplayer conflicts involving dozens of ground troops, tanks and aircraft, has returned for its sixth main instalment - and it's thrilling, epic and compulsive.Apart from the single-player campaign mode, which I absolutely hated. It's another oh-so-familiar tale of preternaturally talented soldiers just doing their jobs to defend the free world in the face of evil private military companies, terror organisations or double-crossing CIA operatives. It could be almost any military shooter of the last decade or any straight-to-streaming war film starring one of the Hemsworths. But it's not. It's a seven-hour cliche bombardment that you have to take an active part in. Continue reading...

Computers running software will still work but steadily become more vulnerable to viruses and malwareFrom Tuesday Microsoft will no longer offer free support as standard for Windows 10, an operating system that is used by millions of computer and laptop owners around the world.Figures for September suggest four in 10 of those using Microsoft Windows worldwide were still using Windows 10, despite the introduction of its successor, Windows 11, in 2021. Continue reading...

Names, email addresses and other contact details of users from around the world could also have been takenGovernment ID photos of about 70,000 global users of Discord, a popular messaging and chat platform among video gamers, may have been exposed after hackers compromised a company contracted to carry out age verification checks.Some users' names, email addresses and other contact details, IP addresses and messages with Discord's customer service agents may also have been taken. The attacker has been trying to extort a ransom from the company. No full credit card details or passwords were seized. Continue reading...

The IGDA Foundation broadened its reach by attending the world's biggest video games event this summer - but faces challenges funding its work helping underrepresented developersGamescom, the annual video game convention held in Cologne, Germany, is a unique event. It not only draws hundreds of thousands of players to pack out vast convention halls each year, but it also hosts professionals, offering them a chance to get their games into the hands of fans, and gives industry hopefuls a shot at passing their resumes to developers. For those based outside the US, it is the biggest event of the year by far. It is the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) Foundation's first year here, and executive director Alyssa Walles is excited.The IGDA Foundation provides professional development for underrepresented and marginalised people hoping to enter the video game industry, a crucial service considering the many barriers prospective producers, developers and writers face. Though Walles is fairly new to the IGDA Foundation, having joined three years ago, she is a video game industry veteran. She knows how crucial it is to help those who aren't born into privileged situations, who can't afford to travel across the globe to conventions, or have not had traditional schooling in computer design or coding. Continue reading...

British Standards Institution study across seven countries found quarter of bosses believe entry-level tasks could be automated to reduce costsYoung people entering the workforce are facing a job-pocalypse", as business leaders invest in artificial intelligence (AI) rather than new hires, according to a study of global business leaders.Bosses are prioritising automation through AI to plug skills gaps and allow them to reduce headcount, instead of training up junior members of staff, a report by the British Standards Institution (BSI) found. Continue reading...

NHTSA reported Teslas driving through red traffic lights and driving against direction of travel during a lane changeUS automobile safety regulators have opened an investigation into Tesla vehicles equipped with its full self-driving (FSD) technology over traffic-safety violations after a series of crashes.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said the electric carmaker's FSD assistance system, which requires drivers to pay attention and intervene if needed, had induced vehicle behaviour that violated traffic safety laws". Continue reading...

Technology is radically reshaping how we make music. As I dug deeper into this for a radio 3 documentary I began to wonder if creative organisations are right to be so upbeat about AI. Are we riding the wave or will the wave destroy us?The hacker mansion is part startup commune, part luxury crash-pad, part sales floor for the future. They are dotted around Silicon Valley, inhabited by tech founders and futurists. The most opulent I've seen is in Hillsborough, one of the Bay Area's wealthiest enclaves, just south of San Francisco. Inside, marble floors gleam beneath taped-up portraits of tech royalty; in the gardens, gravel is raked into careful Zen spirals and pools shimmer beyond the hedges.It was a sunny June afternoon, and I had come with my producer, Fay Lomas, to record interviews for a BBC Radio 3 documentary about the collision of generative AI and classical music in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Continue reading...

Saudi Arabia's investment in Twitter increased its influence in Silicon Valley while being used at home to shut down critics of the regimeAli al-Ahmed didn't think that Elon Musk was responsible for the decline and fall of Twitter. Musk was another face representing an old regime. And its sins began well before Musk bumbled into Twitter HQ, in October 2022, carrying a porcelain sink. (In an attempt at humour, Musk posted a video of himself arriving at the Twitter offices carrying a sink with the caption Entering Twitter HQ - let that sink in!")Ahmed was a Saudi journalist and analyst living in the Washington DC area. He was a founder of the Institute for Gulf Affairs (formerly the Saudi Institute), a Saudi-focused thinktank with an emphasis on human rights reporting, and was the kind of expert - passionate, principled, always glad to hop on the phone - that journalists loved having in their digital Rolodex. Continue reading...

Video game chat platform tells users that driver's licences and passports were among the forms of data accessed via a third-party customer service providerVideo game chat platform Discord has suffered a data breach, informing users that their personal information - including identity documents of those required to prove their age - were compromised.The company stated last week that an unauthorised party had compromised one of Discord's third-party customer service providers, leading to the access of a limited number of users" who had been in contact with the customer service or trust and safety teams. Continue reading...

Asian migrant laborers who paid predatory recruiting fees say global mega-corporation has not kept its promise to pay them restitutionWarehouse laborers from Asia say the world's second largest employer, Amazon, has failed to live up to its promises to compensate them for financial abuses tied to their work for the online retailer in Saudi Arabia.In 2023, Amazon promised to reimburse recruitment fees to its contract workers from Asia who had been forced to pay large sums to secure jobs at the company's warehouses in Saudi Arabia. Since then, Amazon has paid more than $2.6m in compensation to roughly 950 workers from multiple countries. Continue reading...

Experts say attempting to extort children lost Radiant group credibility in hacking world, which made it take actionCybercriminals who stole pictures and the private information of thousands of nursery children have deleted the data after a backlash against the hack.A gang calling themselves Radiant have removed details of children at the UK-based Kido nursery chain from a website it had set up to extort victims. Continue reading...

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We asked coaches and athletes to reveal the gizmos they use to get more from every workout. From smart goggles to turbo trainers, here's what they recommend The best massage guns: tried and tested relief for sore, tired musclesThe fitness-focused tech scene is booming, and there are now more ways than ever to track, analyse and dissect every run, ride and workout rep. From carbon-plated running shoes to form-boosting pool floats, a new wave of fitness kit promises to help you set PBs, win that next match and elevate your athletic abilities.Not every device, wearable or training tool will be right for your goals, so you'll need to be clued up on where to invest your hard-earned money. To cut through the marketing gumpf, I enlisted the help of experts across various disciplines and sports to identify the technology that can truly make a difference. And surprisingly, it isn't always the newest, most expensive releases - some aren't even smart". Continue reading...

A new platform will be an alternative to Kindle, and bookshops will earn 100% of the profit from salesThe online store Bookshop.org is launching a platform through which independent bookshops in the UK will be able to sell ebooks as an alternative to Amazon's Kindle offering.Independent bookshops will earn 100% of the profit from sales, and ebooks will be priced the same as they are on Amazon. Continue reading...

Super-budget Chinese retailer reports revenues of $63.3m last year, almost double its $32m in 2023The UK operation of the Chinese online marketplace Temu doubled revenues and pre-tax profits last year, as British consumers snapped up products offered by the super-budget retailer.Temu UK reported revenues of $63.3m (46.4m) last year, almost double the $32m in 2023, while pre-tax profits similarly surged from $2m to $3.9m, accounts show. Continue reading...

Preteens are parroting influencer speak and demanding anti-ageing products as the pressure to fit in intensifiesJessica, 25, was working a shift at Sephora when a little girl who looked about 10 ran up to one of her colleagues, crying. Her skin was burning," Jessica said, it was tomato red. She had been running around, putting every acid you can think of on the palm of her hand, then all over her face. One of our estheticians had to tend to her skin. Her parents were nowhere to be seen."Former Sephora employee KM, 25, has her war stories too. Like the day a woman was caught shoplifting and told the security guard she was trying to steal because her kid was getting bullied because she didn't have a Dior lip gloss. [The mom] couldn't afford it but her daughter told her she is going to get made fun of at school." Continue reading...

A growing number of shooters are in conversation with their digital communities, which are becoming extremeOn the day that 22-year-old Tyler Robinson shot and the killed rightwing activist Charlie Kirk, prosecutors say, he texted his roommate to confess what he had done. While appearing to admit to the murder and describe how he was planning to retrieve his gun, he pivoted to mention why he had carved messages into the ammunition.Remember how I was engraving bullets? The fuckin messages are mostly a big meme," Robinson texted, according to authorities. Continue reading...

Sam Altman said if there is doubt the system will default to the under-18 experience putting safety ahead of privacy and freedom for teens'OpenAI will restrict how ChatGPT responds to a user it suspects is under 18, unless that user passes the company's age estimation technology or provides ID, after legal action from the family of a 16-year-old who killed himself in April after months of conversations with the chatbot.OpenAI was prioritising safety ahead of privacy and freedom for teens", chief executive Sam Altman said in a blog post on Tuesday, stating minors need significant protection". Continue reading...

Top-spec cameras, cutting edge AI, great software and stunning screen squeezed into a more manageable frameThe Pixel 10 Pro is Google's best phone that is still a pocketable, easy-to-handle size, taking the excellent Pixel 10 and beefing it up in the camera department.That makes it a contender for the top smaller phone with Apple's iPhone 17 Pro, offering the best of Google's hardware without an enormous screen. It is also the cheapest of three Pixel 10 Pro phones starting at 999 (1,099/$999/A$1,699) sitting below the bigger 10 Pro XL and the tablet-phone hybrid the 10 Pro Fold. Continue reading...

What once seemed a pretty fringe subculture of hobbyists riffing on stories that got them privately hot is now bringing mainstream cinema to a rolling boilThere was a time when fan fiction meant furtive scribbles uploaded to shadowy corners of the internet, in which Mr Darcy was recast as a moody vampire flatmate, Captain Kirk discovered his inner romantic, or Gandalf finally got around to opening an artisanal shop in the Shire. It was an underground hobby that could never trouble Tinseltown's accountants. And yet here we are in 2025, with the news in the Hollywood Reporter that Legendary Pictures has just paid at least $3m - (2.2m) - an unprecedented amount - for the screen rights to a forthcoming novel called Alchemised that began life as an unauthorised and kinky Harry Potter spin-off.The backstory behind Alchemised, by SenLinYu, sounds pretty freaky. SenLinYu's original book, titled Manacled, inhabited a strange sub-niche of Potterverse named Dramione" in which Hermione Granger finds herself regularly involved in unlikely and transgressive romantic encounters with Draco Malfoy. Now stripped of all reference to Hogwarts, butterbeer and Nimbus 2000s, and with renamed characters, Alchemised will hit shelves and online bookstores later this month as the dark fantasy tale of a young woman with memory problems who finds herself at the mercy of a powerful and cruel necromancer. Continue reading...

Justice department in lawsuit accuses company drivers of routinely refusing to serve people with disabilitiesThe US government sued Uber on Thursday, accusing the ride-sharing company of violating federal law by discriminating against passengers with disabilities.In a complaint filed in San Francisco federal court, the US Department of Justice said Uber drivers routinely refuse to serve riders with disabilities, including people who travel with service animals or stowable wheelchairs. Continue reading...

Move comes after parliamentary committee finds platform like a slow poison' to young peopleA French lawmaker has asked the state prosecutor for a criminal investigation into whether TikTok was responsible for endangering the lives" of its young users.Arthur Delaporte, a Socialist MP, said he co-chaired a six-month French parliamentary inquiry into TikTok's psychological effects on minors and heard testimony from families, social media executives and influencers. Continue reading...