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A major leak of Facebook’s internal guidelines shows how the social network deals with hate speech, graphic violence and sexual imagery. As regulators become increasingly concerned about the content available on Facebook, is it time the company took a more active approach to policing its users?A major leak of Facebook’s internal guidelines shows how the social network deals with hate speech, graphic violence and sexual imagery. As regulators become increasingly concerned about the content available on Facebook, is it time the company took a more active approach to policing its users?
Watch our series of in-depth films exploring in rich detail the stories behind the headlines
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These are the girls running as fast as they can to be Jamaica’s new sprint champions in a country obsessed with its athletes. This is the story of the Champs national youth athletics competition that could change their lives
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People with disabilities are among the most discriminated against in Bolivia. Fed up with being ignored, a group of them march across the Andes to La Paz hoping to speak to President Evo Morales. Instead they face riot police, barricades, teargas and water cannon
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Cédric Herrou is a farmer who supports and houses African refugees in southern France. Why do he and his fellow activists feel compelled to defy the authorities?
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Christmas Island, off the coast of Australia: where thousands of people seeking asylum are indefinitely held in a high security detention facility. Poh Lin, a trauma counsellor living on the island, bears witness to the dramatic stories and decline of those being detained
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With his robot Erica, Hiroshi Ishiguro, the so-called bad boy of Japanese robotics, aims to redefine what it means to be human
spotlight
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Brendan Cox talks to Owen Jones about The Great Get Together
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Melania Trump appears to bat away her husband’s hand as they greet members of the Israeli government during a visit to Tel Aviv
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The US president, Donald Trump, and the first lady, Melania Trump, arrive in Tel Aviv on Monday and are greeted by Benjamin and Sara Netanyahu
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A protester was arrested in Wrexham as the prime minister arrived to launch the Welsh Conservative manifesto. The man, who said his name was Connor, shouted: ‘This is a fascist state, Theresa May’s police state.’ Police then said he was under arrest for disturbing the peace
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The prime minister claims nothing has changed after giving a speech that rowed back on the Conservative manifesto plan for social care, introducing the idea of a cap on costs
explainers
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A major leak of Facebook’s internal guidelines shows how the social network deals with hate speech, graphic violence and sexual imagery. As regulators become increasingly concerned about the content available on Facebook, is it time the company took a more active approach to policing its users?
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With the news that Swedish prosecutors have dropped their investigation into WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the Guardian looks back at his six years holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy
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If Donald Trump does get impeached, what happens next? The Guardian takes a look at the history of impeachment, from Andrew Johnson to Bill Clinton
sport
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Floyd Mayweather says it is highly likely that if he choses to fight again, it be against Conor McGregor
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Guardian sport’s Michael Butler faces an over from Shane Warne on the Nursery Ground at Lord’s
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Defending Italian Open champion Andy Murray reflects on Tuesday’s second round defeat by Fabio Fognini at the Rome Masters
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French Tennis Federation president, Bernard Giudicelli, cites Maria Sharapova’s recent doping ban as the main reason why she was not invited to play in this year’s French Open
technology
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The British man who halted the WannaCry cyber attack says he’s no hero, but was just doing his job
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The Latvian skydiver completes what drone-makers Aerones say is the world’s first case of drone-diving after being lifted by 28-propeller drone
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A worldwide ransomware attack affecting almost 100 countries has hobbled parts of the NHS across England and Scotland, rendering patient information inaccessible
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Tech startup Improbable is now valued at more than $1bn after funding from Japan’s SoftBank.
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culture
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Mobile phone footage shows Chris Cornell performing as lead singer of Soundgarden for the last time. Cornell died hours later at a Detroit hotel. Police say the death of the singer is being treated as a possible suicide
life & style
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Omar, the maine coon cat from Melbourne, is in the running for the record of the longest cat in the world
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Several unaccompanied adults say they were turned away at the new Legoland Discovery Centre in Melbourne and are threatening to lodge human rights complaints
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First Impressions allows you to experience and interact with the world from the point of view of a baby
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An exhausted participant of the Philadelphia Love Run half marathon is helped by other runners on Sunday
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