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'Why should young people have to beat an algorithm?’ Molly Russell, Meta, and the fight against online harm

As a new documentary tells the story of the teenager, who took her own life in 2017, her father, her friends and the film’s director talk about the unchecked power and threat of social media

Tech

Stewart Lee: Do you want to make a splash? Then use the right’s social media latrine

Have you engineered a Gotcha! moment? Have you shorn it of context? Then all you need to do is drop it from a height and make a mess online

Stewart Lee

Review: Rose Wylie: The Picture Comes First at the Royal Academy

The huge, energetic paintings of the unstoppable 91-year-old artist, the first female British painter to have a solo exhibition in the RA’s main galleries, are a remarkable celebration of life and memory, writes Emily LaBarge

Reviews

Shattered windows, broken rules ... and victory! The medics who protested against the climate emergency

In the latest blow to draconian restraints on the right to protest, six doctors and nurses linked to Extinction Rebellion were dramatically acquitted last week. A play about their trial aims to shine a light on a barely publicised case. Claire Armitstead tells their story

Environment

The Recommender: Shabaka

The jazz star and genre-defying saxophonist who made his name with groups including Sons of Kemet shares his current cultural favourites

Culture

Alissa Timoshkina’s Greek-Ukrainian meat and potato pie

The chef and #CookforUkraine campaigner shares a recipe for kobete – a celebratory dish from the Greek diaspora on Ukraine’s southern coast

Food

Could Manchester go turquoise (or Green)? No-one from Reform would speak to us

John Sweeney visits Gorton and Denton to talk to voters and candidates ahead of this week's byelection. He has little joy at Reform HQ, and potential voters seem shy. Green Party candidate Hannah Spencer, however, is happily hitting the doorsteps...

Reform UK

"A historic night for representation will now be remembered for one thing": Hanna Flint on the Baftas racism row

The slur from John Davidson who has Tourette syndrome was involuntary but it should not have been broadcast by the BBC. When I hosted a Q&A screening of I Swear with Davidson I was properly prepared in advance, writes the film critic and podcaster

Culture

Peter Mandelson, the Russian superyacht and the scandal we completely misread

When Britain's most powerful political fixer was caught on an oligarch's boat in Corfu, we called it Yachtgate and moved on. The Epstein files now reveal the full picture: a web of Russian money, paedophile kompromat and New Labour access that shaped a decade of British politics, writes Tamsin Shaw

Politics