Béjar’s daughter was 14 when she told him Instagram was failing to keep her safe. So when he became part of Meta’s ‘wellbeing team’, he knew he had to speak out – and his testimony cost it billions

The Social Reckoning hits cinemas this Friday, but the real world has already been working on a sequel – or rather, a threequel. Directed by Aaron Sorkin, the movie is a follow-up to The Social Network, detailing the further misadventures of Mark Zuckerberg and his social media empire, and in particular Frances Haugen, the employee who in 2021 leaked internal documents that appeared to show Facebook was aware of the harms its products had inflicted.

It’s no spoiler to reveal the film climaxes with Haugen’s testimony to the US Senate, on 5 October 2021. That very same day, Arturo Béjar, a consultant on the wellbeing team of Instagram (which is also owned by Facebook), hit send on a long-gestating email to Zuckerberg and other senior Facebook executives on a similar theme. “I wanted to bring to your attention what I believe is a critical gap in how we as a company approach harm, and how the people we serve experience it,” Béjar began, before laying out some shocking statistics from his team’s survey. For example: 24.4% of 13-15-year-olds on Instagram said they had received unwanted advances, and 21.8% said they had been the target of bullying on the platform in the past seven days. Furthermore, 51% of Instagram users said they had had a bad or harmful experience in the past seven days. Only 1% of them reported it, and of those, 2% had the content taken down – so just 0.02%. This was a far greater degree of harm than the company’s existing measurements suggested. Zuckerberg never replied.

Ava shared the initial cost but Ruth has forked out for repairs. You decide who’s on the wrong side of this in-tents debate?

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I paid for half of the tent, so I deserve equal use of it, even if we no longer live in the same country

Ava hasn’t used the tent in years, and I’ve stored it and paid for its upkeep. Surely I get first dibs?

After his mother died, Otto became convinced he’d been wronged by the forensic investigators – and that one of them was a fraud. The truth was even stranger

On a balmy, quiet evening in June 2020, Otto’s elderly mother, Doria, was fading in her Munich apartment. As she lay with her eyes closed, her pale face, framed by her white hair, was calm.

Otto, masked, gloved and draped in a sterile apron, dozed in a chair beside her. Otto, who sometimes goes by the name Rainer, and whose last name is only known as “Z” because of Germany’s strict privacy laws, was a doctor who had cared for his mother for years, ever since she had suffered a stroke and moved in with him. He described the course of that night to me. He woke to the sound of her short breath and tried to sit her upright. Her eyes were shut, and her lips pursed. She stopped breathing. Otto reached for his phone to call for help, but then Doria opened her eyes and stared into his. She smiled, drew one last deep breath, shut her eyes again, and lay still.

Some of the biggest names in European football will bid for a franchise in ESL-style league, now due to launch in 2028

The launch of NBA Europe will be delayed 12 months until 2028, with a pre-qualifying competition planned for next year to find four temporary members to join the 16-team league’s inaugural season alongside 12 permanent franchises.

The NBA is planning to invest about $10bn (£7.6bn) over 10 years in what sources have described as the sporting world’s biggest-ever startup competition. It is understood to have received multiple offers for the 12 franchises that exceed their targets, with prices expected to range from $500m to more than $1bn for the London franchise.

The UK state is dumping its responsibilities on our doorsteps, while green-lighting policies that lead us closer to crisis

Would you mind fixing the NHS? And while you’re at it, could you please build an anti-missile system in your garden? Then regulate the banks, replace the water mains, tax the very rich and use the proceeds to rebuild our schools. Well, come on people: what are you waiting for?

I exaggerate, but this isn’t very far from the approach taken by the government’s Prepare campaign. Crucial functions, way beyond the scope of individual action, are dumped on our doorsteps while those in power fail to act. As a result, our national resilience is arguably lower than at any time since the second world war. At the Labour conference last week, Andy Burnham promised “a Britain where people feel the country has got their back again”. To make good on that pledge, he will have to change almost everything.

George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist

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They may be two of the most recognisable brands in Britain, with a combined 188 years serving shoppers, but industry watchers agree that either Asda or Morrisons – or both – could disappear within a decade.

This week, it emerged that Sainsbury’s and Morrisons – the UK’s second- and sixth-largest supermarket chains – had held merger talks between last November and February, before the larger player decided to walk away.

Teddy Young, 24, from Bedfordshire, charged under National Security Act after arrest by counter-terror police

A serving member of the Royal Navy has been charged with spying, police have said.

Teddy Young, 24, will appear today at Westminster magistrates court after he was charged with obtaining protected information that could benefit an unnamed foreign power.

In ad to be shown before The Social Reckoning, Ian Russell will say ‘too little has changed’ since death of Molly, 14

Molly Russell’s father will tell UK cinemagoers that “Instagram helped kill my daughter” in an advert to be shown before screenings of a new film about Mark Zuckerberg’s social media empire.

In the 30-second ad before The Social Reckoning, released on Friday, Ian Russell says “too little has changed” since the death of his 14-year-old daughter, who took her own life in 2017 after viewing harmful content on Instagram.

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Over in Athens, Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, has been forced, yet again, to address allegations of misconduct by Kimberly Guilfoyle, America’s ambassador to Greece.

Swedish Academy says Carson selected for her ‘bold and inventive oeuvre’

Is Can Xue becoming the new Haruki Murakami? The Japanese literary superstar has for so long been a favourite to win a Nobel without actually winning one that people in the literature industry have started to talk of the “Murakami curse”. But Chinese experimental writer Can Xue too is starting to follow that pattern. A bookies’ top favourite in 2018, 2019, 2023, 2024 and 2025, she’s again topping runners and riders lists this year.

Could the pre-announcement hype in itself count against her winning? The Swedish Academy is clearly a self-aware kind of oracle, unhappy to see its choices as determined by outside forces. Last year’s laureate László Krasznahorkai may have been Ladbrokes’ favourite (alongside Can Xue), but bookies correctly predicting the winner is a once-in-a-decade occurrence. The last time it happened before that was with Svetlana Alexievich in 2015, Ladbrokes’ clear favourite at 3/1 odds.

Yet while the Academy certainly likes being seen as unpredictable, that’s not to say that it actually is. The biggest literary accolade in the world is evidently engaged in a constant process of re-adjusting the perceived imbalances in its list of laureates. Over the last two decades it has done so in terms of gender, with eight women and 12 men, alternating since 2017, and in terms of crude geography, with 10 winners from western Europe and 10 from the rest of the world.

After a Norwegian man in 2023, a South Korean woman in 2024 and a Hungarian man in 2025, we might reasonably expect a non-European woman in 2026. Hence strong odds for Can Xue and Anne Carson, and rumours about Australian memoirist and novelist Alexis Wright and Antiguan-American novelist and gardening writer Jamaica Kincaid. But non-European female is still a very broad category, which is why Nobel-watchers have been considering other patterns.

The last Nobel literature laureate known foremost for their poetry was Louise Glück in 2020. Before that, it was Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer in 2011. High time for another writer of verse, which is why one name bandied about at the Frankfurt Book Fair this week was that of South African poet Marlene van Niekerk.

But what if the crucial metric is not literary form but accessibility? The last winners with a genuine populist appeal – writers who didn’t need a Nobel – were Bob Dylan and Kazuo Ishiguro, in 2016 and 2017 respectively. “In a way, it would be logical if this year they wanted someone who was a little more well-known and accessible after Krasznahorkai”, wrote Swedish broadsheet Svenska Dagbladet this week.

Jens Liljestrand, a critic for Expressen who predicted Han Kang’s win in 2024, has followed that line of thought and come up with an intriguing prediction: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Nigerian author of the phenomenally successful Half of a Yellow Sun.

By that logic, of course, the Academy might have spent the last decade playing one big game of double bluff and working towards handing the prize to Haruki Murakami after all.