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Your pension, Palantir’s war machine
USS, the UK's largest private pension fund, has £45m invested in the AI company that, its CEO boasts, can bring ‘violence and death’ to America's enemies. University union leaders want change, reports Ian Tucker
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Big Tech tried to get young people addicted. Now the reckoning has begun
Two seismic court decisions in the US have intervened where legislators have failed to defend social media users from exploitation, writes campaigner Zamaan Qureshi
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Will Google’s AI hype man kill the BBC?
Matt Brittin spent two decades at Google, a tech company helping to destroy journalism. His appointment as leader of Britain’s biggest news organisation represents an existential threat, writes Carole Cadwalladr
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Is Palantir in your pension? UK institutions have over £5bn invested in US tech corporation
Research reveals size of investment by UK organisations – including some of Britain’s biggest retirement providers – in Silicon Valley’s most controversial technology company. Carole Cadwalladr and Ian Tucker report
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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
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The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-long project that cloaked eugenics, race science and sexual misconduct in Ivy League respectability
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A teenager was hounded until she died by the 'ordinary women' of Tattle Life. A ban is long overdue.
The suicide of 16-year-old Princess Dickson came after incessant targeting on the anonymous influencer gossip forum. The commenters – mainly professional women – should be ashamed, writes Dr Jessica Taylor
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I confronted a tech boss about my sister’s suicide. I don’t know why I bothered
Aimee died at 21 after going on a notorious self-harm forum. But when I approached a tech CEO to talk about online safety at a Davos debate, I was threatened with removal, writes Adele Walton
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What’s happening in America is technofascism. It could happen here
Peter Thiel's data surveillance company Palantir is powering Trump's ICE operation in the US. Carole Cadwalladr argues that the UK will be next
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Revealed: Palantir deals with UK state total at least £670m – including £15m contract with nuclear weapons agency
EXCLUSIVE Nerve investigation finds Trump ally Peter Thiel's surveillance firm has won at least 34 contracts, including management services for Britain's nuclear deterrent, with MPs warning of 'gaping vulnerability' as US president threatens Nato allies. By Carole Cadwalladr, Charlie Young and Max Colbert
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Cringe, actually. A young person's guide to how not to do politics on social media
In the absence of any youth-friendly policies, British politicians, led by Keir Starmer, are doubling down on online comms – and it isn’t working. Nerve editorial assistant Anandita Abraham analyses some cover-your-eyes examples
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‘He’s so unafraid’: how New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani aced his TikTok game
As New Yorkers went to vote, the unapologetically leftwing – and hugely popular – candidate was leading the polls. Mamdani's fearless, canny, often funny, social media posts played a key role in his campaign. Kat Tenbarge reports
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‘What will Jesus say?’ Tony Blair, Big Tech and the Israel connection
As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel's government – including billionaire Larry Ellison – and an emerging rightwing media takeover of the global information space
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